Trigger animation with each new Tweet

Hello!

I’m interesting in putting together a project in which a video animation is played whenever a Twitter account posts a new tweet. I’ve looked into incorporating Twitter’s Streaming API’s, as well as the Threaded Web COMP, but I’m not exactly sure where to start. I feel it’s a fairly simple function, but am totally lost in my lack of experience with TouchDesigner.

Thanks!

You’ll have to get into python to get this going as the Threaded Web COMP is python based.

I don’t have it running right now, but if each tweet is coming into say a Table DAT, then you can use a DAT Execute DAT to monitor the tweet Table DAT and everytime the table changes (ie. new tweet added or deleted) you can run a script for that event.

I’m not sure where you are in the process, so that may or may-not mean anything to you. Let me know more specifically how far you are in getting tweets coming into your project.

Here’s link to Threaded Web COMP:
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=9164

If you’re only dealing with Twitter, our COMP might be a bit simpler:
[Threaded Twitter Stream + Search Tox)