[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Does anybody know is it possible to get a timeline feed with updates of a bunch of unrelated people? I mean hundreds. Sure. The public timeline, or the firehose (requires special arrangement). -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Thanks Cameron, but will it work for a bunch of specific people, like a query @john OR @mary OR @jesse OR @lisa OR @onandon? Not without work. You can do that in three ways: - Get the public timeline/firehose with the API, and filter it to the people you want. - Make a user that follows

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread MarcosNobre
Thanks Doug and Cameron, About the query I heard Twitter allows only 140 characters as well. Problem is: I want to set up dynamically little communities with people who join and share twitter name. One way to do is creating a new twitter account for the community and ask people to follow, or

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread Cameron Kaiser
About the query I heard Twitter allows only 140 characters as well. Yes. Problem is: I want to set up dynamically little communities with people who join and share twitter name. One way to do is creating a new twitter account for the community and ask people to follow, or ask for his

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread Doug Williams
Marcos, Have you considered popularizing hashtags for each of these communities. You could then search on the hashtag rather than the individual users. Doug @dougw On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:13 PM, MarcosNobre nobremar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Doug and Cameron, About the query I heard

[twitter-dev] Re: Feed from unrelated people?

2009-03-08 Thread MarcosNobre
That's what I'm afraid of. I'll get in line and wait for twitter groups. Thank you all. all the best Marcos @marcosnobre On Mar 8, 3:33 pm, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com wrote: @Cameron You're right. It would work just like that. How about my solution of dynamically created twitter