Tweeter

This is a mini-version of Twitter based on client-server TCP socket programming with relational MySQL database. The entire project is based on python with command line interface.

Requirements and Dependencies

• MySQL Workbench
• Mininet (for testing)
• Python Libraries - MySQL connector, threading, regex, socket, getpass, mininet

How to Run?

• Add your MySQL username and password in database_init.py and server.py.
• Initialize the database using the command python database_init.py.
• Run python server.py in terminal.
• Run python client.py in terminal and follow the CLI. You can create multiple clients at one time as well.
• In order to test, run python run_concurrent_clients.py.
• If all the dependencies are satisfied and a successful database connection is made, the application should run smoothly.

Features

• Login/ Register a user
• Obscure Password
• Search a user from registered users list
• Follow/ unfollow users
• Delete followers
• Display list of online followers and following
• Post tweets with hashtags
• Retweet a tweet
• Display trending hashtags
• Search tweets by hashtags
• 1v1 chat session
• News Feed home page
• Pin tweets for the user's home page

Contributors

• Kavita Vaishnaw
• Kanishk Kalra
• Mohit Mina