Votes from Twitter

In your $GOPATH/src folder, alongside other projects, create a new folder called socialpoll for this chapter. This folder won't be a Go package or program by itself, but will contain our three component programs. Inside socialpoll, create a new folder called twittervotes and add the obligatory main.go template (this is important as main packages without a main function won't compile):

package main
func main(){}

Our twittervotes program is going to:

• Load all polls from the MongoDB database using mgo, and collect all options from the options array in each document

• Open and maintain a connection to Twitter's streaming APIs looking for any mention of the options

• For each tweet that matches the filter, figure out which option is mentioned and push that option through to NSQ

• If the connection to Twitter is dropped (which is common in long-running connections as it is actually part of Twitter's streaming API specification) after a short delay (so we do not bombard Twitter with connection...