Building relations between Israelis and Iranians through Twitter

An academic research center in Israel is examining Israeli civilian relations-building Initiatives (CRBIs) dedicated to bridging relations with the Iranian people using Internet tools like blogs, social media, and video sharing platforms. The center is trying to create a system as well, that can effectively make connections between Israelis and Iranians -- both in quantity and quality -- while tracking the system's success (or lack thereof) in its relations-building objective. We would like to use existing Twitter profiles to build these connections through using existing APIs that collect tweets from twitter users living within Israel, and for tweets from twitter users living within Iran. Then we program Twitter bots to make introductions between Israelis and Iranians based on specified interests (i.e. football, cooking, music, etc.) in their Tweets. Finally, we would like some analytical component attached to the system in order to track the progress.