muteTweeters: Mute Twitter Users with Excessive Hashtag Use

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Mute Twitter Users with Excessive Hashtag Use

Description

Mutes Twitter accounts using for than 'ncrit' hashtags among 'N' tweets in search of along with of 'term'.

Usage

muteTweeters(term = "#rstats", N = 1000, ncrit = 10)

Arguments

term	A character variable to search for, defaults to ‘#rstats’
N	An number of tweets to fetch, defaults to 1000
ncrit	A number of hashtags after which use is deemed excessive, defaults to 10

Details

This is a modified version of the code in a wonderful tweet by Colin Gillespie (csgillespie) on 2020-August-26. It requires the rtweet and data.table packages.

Value

NULL, invisibly, but the function is invoked for the side effect of calling post_mute.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Examples

## Not run: 
## mute users with more than 10 hashtags among
## the 1000 most recent #rstats tweets
muteTweeters("#rstats", 1000, 10)

## End(Not run)

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