In the current world of humongous data volumes, smart analysis is the key to making sense of things. And today, more than ever before, the general public has access to data that can be analysed for free. Like via twitter we have access to what a lot of people in the world are talking about at any given moment in time. Mapping this data to various events happening at that time, gives a very powerful technique to analyze the impact of these events (or even tv shows) and the kind of conversations they are generating.

Below is a video that talks about some of this (in its later part). It is also a very nice watch if you like data visualizations.

It become a default assumption in all new web applications (that I have worked on or read about) to have an integration with either facebook, twitter, linked in, or all the three.

Working with these on rails is no longer rocket science as the various plug-in and gems do most of the work for us. I thought it would be appropriate to create a place for my reference as well as that of others to collect some good tutorials that allow us to do these integrations.  To start off, I am adding a few good ones that I have referred to or those that have a lucid explanation and are a good read.

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