This is an application that pulls content from twitter and supports displaying it on multiple devices. The backend and web interface runs on OpenShift.

The steps for deploying this application are simple. The only preqrequisite is to have your own Twitter API access credentials.

Everything is setup and configured for twitter4j except the API credentials. We can not provide public credentials for accessing twitter API's via twitter4j. This mean you will need to get and create your own credentials following the twitter4j and twitter instructions.

This is really not too hard, but does require some effort. Because these steps change from time to time you should see http://twitter4j.org/en/configuration.html and https://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth for the details.

Basically you will need to login to https://dev.twitter.com and create an application. Once you have an application registered with Twitter you will be able to create the oauth keys on the application details page.

Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/

Create a jbossas-7 application

rhc app create -a tweet -t jbossas-7

Add this upstream seambooking repo

cd tweet
git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/openshift/tweetstream-example.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master

Edit tweetstream/src/main/resources/twitter4j.properties and add twitter API keys

oauth.consumerKey=
oauth.consumerSecret=
oauth.accessToken=
oauth.accessTokenSecret=

Commit this edit

git commit -a -m "add my API creds for twitter"

Then push the repo upstream

git push

That's it, you can now checkout your application at:

http://tweet-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com