Explore Twitter Search In this tutorial, we'll talk about how to use the Twitter API to look up information on a specific subject. At the end of this article, you should be able to use Python to obtain search results from Twitter, filter out duplicates using a for loop and list lookup, and look at a JSON data structure. We'll utilize the Twitter API to look for tweets with particular subjects or hashtags in the section that follows. A tweet is made up of a 140-character string as well as additional information about it, such as the dictionary's keys, which are components of the statuses list in the notebook. With the use of this metadata, we will be able to gather useful information about tweets that are returned in response to our search. Moving on to the notebook, we will search for some trends. For instance, we will look for tweets associated with the hashtag endangered species day which is a trending topic. We can also search for MTV awards, which was a topic discussed earlier. To search for tweets using Twitter API, we need to use a function that takes in the topic and the count of tweets we want back as arguments. We will store the results in a variable called "number". When we run the function, it returns all the recent records it finds up to a maximum of the count. Twitter often returns duplicate records on a subject. To clean the data, we will use a for loop to create a slice of data called "statuses" containing unique statuses. We will check if the text of each status is already in "all_text" and if it is not, we will append it to "filtered_statuses". At the end of the for loop, we will assign "filtered_statuses" to the "statuses" object. We can display the statuses by slicing out the text from the statuses object or by using the JSON dumps. The length of the filtered statuses object will be less than the original statuses object as duplicates will have been removed. The content, screen names, and hashtags for each record will then be extracted from the statuses data structure and organized into lists. "status texts" will be the name of the first list. We'll use fields like retweet count and retweeted as the index to do this. In order to extract the text, screen names, and hashtags, we will use any data that we had retweeted for the MTV awards.