Let’s scratch the twitter meta-data together and go below the surface with tweepy. Want to find out if the tweets you follow are trying to persuade you to do things? Have the feeling the advocates for some issues use certain emotions to push you in certain directions? Now you can find out. Delve deep into the tweet with me, I’ll take you on a journey through mining twitter API, how the Twitter meta-data is structured and how to reach a specific field, analyzing text, emojis, emotions, and more. An introduction to a variety of python packages. “I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.” (The Matrix, Morpheus) Whether or not you go down is your choice. A practical lecture, don’t worry if you don’t follow all the code lines - access to the lecture notebooks is promised.