diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6769e21d99a63338394e47bc4c7d0aba1e88d5a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,160 @@
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+share/python-wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+*.py,cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+cover/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+db.sqlite3-journal
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+.pybuilder/
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+# pyenv
+#   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
+#   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
+# .python-version
+
+# pipenv
+#   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
+#   However, in case of collaboration, if having platform-specific dependencies or dependencies
+#   having no cross-platform support, pipenv may install dependencies that don't work, or not
+#   install all needed dependencies.
+#Pipfile.lock
+
+# poetry
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include poetry.lock in version control.
+#   This is especially recommended for binary packages to ensure reproducibility, and is more
+#   commonly ignored for libraries.
+#   https://python-poetry.org/docs/basic-usage/#commit-your-poetrylock-file-to-version-control
+#poetry.lock
+
+# pdm
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include pdm.lock in version control.
+#pdm.lock
+#   pdm stores project-wide configurations in .pdm.toml, but it is recommended to not include it
+#   in version control.
+#   https://pdm.fming.dev/#use-with-ide
+.pdm.toml
+
+# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow and github.com/pdm-project/pdm
+__pypackages__/
+
+# Celery stuff
+celerybeat-schedule
+celerybeat.pid
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+dmypy.json
+
+# Pyre type checker
+.pyre/
+
+# pytype static type analyzer
+.pytype/
+
+# Cython debug symbols
+cython_debug/
+
+# PyCharm
+#  JetBrains specific template is maintained in a separate JetBrains.gitignore that can
+#  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
+#  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
+#  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
+#.idea/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index b8e9f292e2092df7a510f36dec7bf5d98d5668bb..0beed75a559b4bdabce6a6ed041a0c37321755cf 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import snscrape.modules.twitter as sntwitter
 import pandas as pd
 
-from src.functions import construct_query, convert_date
+from src.functions import construct_query, convert_date_str, calc_frequency
 
 table = pd.DataFrame(columns=['date', 'tweet'])
 
@@ -13,20 +13,21 @@ negativeFilters = ["replies", "links", "retweets", "nativeretweets"]
 
 languages = ["en"]
 
-tweetNumber = 1000
+tweetNumber = 100
 
 for i, tweet in enumerate(sntwitter.TwitterSearchScraper(query=construct_query(terms, negativeTerms, filters, negativeFilters)).get_items()):
     if i > tweetNumber:
         break
     if (tweet.lang in languages):
-        dict = {'date': convert_date(tweet.date), 'tweet': tweet.rawContent}
+        dict = {'date': convert_date_str(
+            tweet.date), 'tweet': tweet.rawContent}
 
         if ("metaverse" in tweet.rawContent.lower()):
             table = pd.concat([table, pd.DataFrame.from_records([dict])])
 
     print(i/tweetNumber*100, " %")
 
-
+print(calc_frequency(table))
 table = table.drop_duplicates(subset=["tweet"]).sort_values(by=["tweet"])
 
 table.to_json("output/twitter_data.json", orient="split")
diff --git a/src/__init__.py b/src/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391
diff --git a/src/__pycache__/functions.cpython-310.pyc b/src/__pycache__/functions.cpython-310.pyc
deleted file mode 100644
index 87e8b7179e9d818f85ebba1de9d1adba8b8cfdc3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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diff --git a/src/functions.py b/src/functions.py
index 63c2429e8c97a0d50280e90e27b6e3138e25fadb..b7e34d42da357538b766e323cf183b24d64b2119 100644
--- a/src/functions.py
+++ b/src/functions.py
@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ def construct_query(terms, negativeTerms, filters, negativeFilters):
     return (query)
 
 
-def convert_date(date):
+def convert_date_str(date):
     return (date.strftime(
             "%m/%d/%Y, %H:%M:%S"))
+
+
+def time_to_num(time_str):
+    hh, mm, ss = map(int, time_str.split(':'))
+    return ss + 60*(mm+60*hh)
+
+
+def calc_frequency(table_tweets):
+    return (abs(time_to_num(table_tweets["date"][0])-time_to_num(table_tweets["date"][-1]))/len(table_tweets["date"]))