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This article is about the use of BaseX for processing and storing the live data stream of Twitter. We illustrate some statistics about the Twitter data and the performance of BaseX.
= BaseX as Twitter Storage=
For retrieving the Twitter stream we connect with the Streaming API to the endpoint of Twitter and receive a never ending tweet stream. As Twitter delivers the tweets as [http://www.json.org/ JSON] objects and has to be
converted by BaseX into XML fragments. For this purpose the parse function of the [[JSON Module|XQuery JSON Module]] is used.
=Twitters' Streaming Data=
