Filtering data with Snapkite Engine

The amount of tweets that you'll receive via the Twitter Streaming API is more than you can ever consume, so we need to find a way to filter that stream of data into a meaningful set of tweets that we can display and interact with. I recommend that you take a quick look at the Twitter Streaming API documentation at https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/overview, and in particular, take a look at this page that describes the way you can filter an incoming stream at https://dev.twitter.com/streaming/reference/post/statuses/filter. You'll notice that Twitter provides very few filters that we can apply, so we need to find a way to filter that stream of data even further.

Luckily, there is a Node.js application just for this. It's called Snapkite Engine. It connects to the Twitter Streaming API, filters it using the available filters and according to the rules that you define, and outputs the filtered tweets to a web socket connection. Our proposed React application...