Tweedle

Landing page for our web application
Schedule recurring tweets and analyze past history of engagement
Monitor scheduled campaigns and analyze audience engagement/activity trends
Censoring profanities,racist and sexist comments in direct messages - (Works for both send and received messages)
Detecting negative emotions - temporarily disabling the tweet button. Let's make sure we don't tweet something we may regret!
Shows green tint if the tweet is positive and also shows specific emojis that represents the emotion of the text
Detecting positive emotions and suggesting emoticons to go along with it!

Inspiration

We wanted to create an application that would make using Twitter an even more positive experience than it already is, make it accessible for those with disabilities while allowing another segment of users to expand their reach and audience - something small businesses can take advantage of readily!

What it does

-A Chrome extension to allow : -Voice to speech conversion and vice-versa - thereby assisting in posting tweets and engaging other users via private messages. -Filter out profanities racist and sexist comments and help maintain your mental peace, while also ensuring that you do not unwittingly contribute to hate speech by asking you for confirmation when we detect certain emotions in the tweet that you were attempting to post. -A dashboard to allow :

Allow individuals and small businesses to analyze their audience and engagement history in order to better educate them about what timings, patterns etc. would be most beneficial to them should they attempt to engage in an effort to increase their audience and reach of tweets.

How I built it

We used Vanilla Javascript for the Chrome Extension, React.Js for the dashboard. And Python with Tensorflow+Keras for the purposes of emotion/sentiment detection and analysis. We also made use of the Twitter API and several other third-party APIs (https://github.com/D3vd/Meme_Api, https://rapidapi.com/LemmoTresto/api/joke3/details, the chart-js library, the momentjs library and many others)

Challenges We ran into

Building the chrome extension was tough as there are many security features of Twitter that don’t allow us to censor the text in the tweet region, even if it does other bugs arise. The same problem arose when we wanted to show the emotions using emoticons in the tweet region - Twitter checks for keystrokes which makes it difficult to do this. We also analyzed the user’s activity and their follower’s activity but there is a cap on the number of tweets we can query which made it difficult for us to do dynamic analysis on every user so we tried to do on a small number of tweets and followers. Also, three-legged authentication was difficult to implement. Taking into consideration that we are billed on the basis of your AWS Lambda function usage - we had to ensure that we did not allow scheduling with too high a granularity. That was a trade-off between user experience and infra cost we had to maintain to ensure that our application did not cost a penny to use and host.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We believe that the fact that we completed the entire application from scratch in 2 days, hosted our APIs all the while being completely new to the platform, Twitter API and some of the technologies was something that we could be somewhat happy about.

What's next for Tweedle

We want to improve our chrome extension by showing the emotions in the status update(tweet) box region and censoring profane words in the tweet box region. Also, we wish to further test our analysis of user engagement with access to larger datasets.