crown news

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  Crown News

Inspiration

Making top global trending Twitter news easily accessible to the aged in our society, who are more likely to miss out on current trends and happenings in our society. In loving memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II!

What it does

Provides top 5 trending tweets and Twitter topics from different cities and countries of the world!

How we built it

Using Twitter API, Java, and AWS Lambda

Challenges we ran into

Accessing the where-on-earth-id (WOEID) of some cities.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Ability to monitor real-time tweets around the world with just a verbal query!

What we learned

The transfer of data from text to voice and from voice to text with just a few lines of code

What's next for crown news

To include more services that will make the life of the elderly easier and more engaging.

Built With

• alexa
• amazon-web-services
• api
• java
• json
• sublime-text
• twitter
• visual-studio