Reading votes from Twitter

In your $GOPATH/src folder, alongside other projects, create a new folder called socialpoll for this chapter. This folder won't be a Go package or a program by itself, but it will contain our three component programs. Inside socialpoll, create a new folder called twittervotes and add the obligatory main.go template (this is important as main packages without a main function won't compile):

package main 
func main(){} 

Our twittervotes program is going to:

• Load all polls from the MongoDB database using mgo and collect all options from the options array in each document

• Open and maintain a connection to Twitter's streaming APIs looking for any mention of the options

• Figure out which option is mentioned and push that option through to NSQ for each tweet that matches the filter

• If the connection to Twitter is dropped (which is common in long-running connections that are actually part of Twitter's streaming API specification) after a short delay (so that we do not bombard...