Streaming APIs give us low latency access to Twitter’s global stream of Tweet data in almost real-time manner. This code is implemented with respect to tweepy library.

• In order to let this code work, you have to create your own Twitter access token, visit (https://dev.twitter.com/webhooks/access-tokens) to understand why you need them and how to create your own.

-Then, Paste the (consumer_key, consumer_secret, access_token and access_secret) tokens in config.py with your generated configuration tokens from twitter developer website.

-Make sure to create a file to save the crawled data in, by using command (mkdir data).

-To run the code : use the following command by passing your requested keywords to crawl lively tweets about it. python twitter_stream_download.py -q (your keyword) -d data

example: If you want to crawl up-to-dates tweets about e-learning, then (python twitter_stream_download.py -q #e-learning -d data) has to be run using your cmd.

You can download the dataset (Tweets for keyword 'MOOC/s' over the period 3 to 31 of July 2017 resulting in more than 43,000 full structured time-stamped tweets). MOOC: stands for Massive Open Online Courses.

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.7910%2FDVN%2FFJXK56)

• Tweets for #MOOC/s over the period 3 to 31 of July 2017 resulting in more than 43,000 full structured time-stamped tweets.
• #GameOfThrones hashtag on the third day of releasing (Jul-18 2017) the 7th season, results a 4447 tweet within only 16 minutes!

(This meet one of our hypothesis which assumes that social media users are more interested of being updated about entertainment contents over educational matterial).

Linkedin post : a figure shows a post at Linkedin platform, which the post contains an educational video material.

Linkedin post activity: result of the engagement at the Linkedin post over the last month (September).

Twitter Post: a figure shows a tweet posted at twitter platform over a month. The tweet contains a link for same educational video that Linkedin have.

Twitter post activity: result of posting this tweet for over a month, contains counter for how many likes, link clicks and hashtag clicks.

2g_3g_4g_coverage_map: containts a map that address all countries in the world with the current internet network coverage type (2G: Red, 3G:Blue and 4G:Yellow). *http://extensia-ltd.com/africa-africa-world-looks-like-2g-3g-4g/

MOOCs global covereage by HPI: Learning analysis shows less usage of elearning platforms in Africa compared to the penetration and the popularity of social networking sites worldwidely.

Three_Hashtags _Visualization: a hashtag network for (#OpenHpi, #HPI_DE, #OpenSAP) over the period 20th-27th/June/2017.

Internet Service: This table and diagram shows the increasing Internet Services in the East African country with high penetration of mobiles such as mobile devices and wireless communication.

Overall usage of Social Media Applications Figure summarizes the overall usage of social media applications* with frequency use of Social Media among respondent. *Source: Deo Shao , OSN tanzania.

Facebook Free Mode Figure shows users of Facebook have an option to go "FREE MODE" which offer free Internet data services to the user in Facebook.

Service Provider Facebook Bundles Figure shows a typical menu from the ISP showing an optional selection of bundle bundles explicitly for Social media such as WhatsApp, Facebook and YouTube.