analyze.py

'''
Rewrite with Twittcher ;)
Result (every 20 seconds):
>>> Most common words: [('ferguson', 41), ('http', 28), ('protests', 9),
                        ('missouri', 9), ('leave', 8), ('continue', 8),...]
'''

import re
from collections import Counter
from twittcher import SearchWatcher

counter = Counter()

def action(tweet):
    words = [w for w in re.findall("\w+",tweet.text) if len(w)>3]
    counter.update([w.lower() for w in words])
    print ("Most common words: %s"%(counter.most_common(20)))

bot = SearchWatcher("ferguson", action=action)
bot.watch_every(20) # 20 seconds