Inspiration
Knowing that Twitter and other social network platforms sometimes fail to effectively deal with the worst of their userbase, BullyHound is trying to fight against; our initial goal was an Android app coupled with AWS/EC2 to parse in real-time tweets with bullying or harassing phrasing and respond to what they are saying to let them know that it wasn't appropriate.
What it does
After discussing and seeing that it was already done at another hackathon, we refined our idea to be more specific to a single twitter user. Our goal was to design an application that allows for monitoring of a user's tweets and mentions and conceptually a young twitter user, notify the app's user when tweets were sent or mentions were sent and notify; by designing it with a singular user focus allows for more direct engagement of the user to see who is doing the harassing and attempt to fix the situation.
How We built it
We used the Twitter AP and Twitter Fabric plugin for Android to build the application.
Challenges we ran into
The group had very little knowledge of how android worked aside from displaying a web view, so working through a new API while trying to build the application was difficult. We also as a group worked through designing a website to accompany the application design.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Getting the basic functionality of the tweet views working and parsing the data out in testing was a huge accomplishment for us.
What I learned
How to leverage external APIs natively in Android.
What's next for BullyHound
Expand the tweet parsing to AWS natural language processing for a more diverse set of parsed of tweets.
Link
bullyHound.com
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