[twitter-dev] Re: Newbie question - please help.
Thanks Georgios, your website does exactly what I need. Except that I don't need to use a website, but to built this functionality into my application, that will show real-time results for a certain groups of tweets competing for popularity. I don't want my app to scrape your pages (for example by doing a request to http://favorious.com/search/favorites?s=cerati) but rather to get the data directly from the Twitter API. Since you have achieved this already, do you have any advice on how to tackle this? How does your website know how many times a given tweet has been favorited? On May 23, 8:21 pm, Georgios kapero...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gustavo Favorious ( a href=http://favorious.com;http://favorious.com/a ), which is a website I have recently launched, can do exactly what you want. Cheers Georgios On May 23, 11:17 pm, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: result_type=popular won't do it for my project. This criterion is very restrictive. Even if one searches for a widely used hashtag such as #cerati, no results or very few results will show up as popular. In fact, if you search for twitter you get only a couple of popular tweets! Furthermore, the problem with result_type=popular is that you cannot measure exactly how popular any of the results are. You can't order them by popularity either. How many times have they been RT? How many times have they been favorited? It's a black box. What I would like to do is to query the API in such a way that I can get, for instance, all tweets that have been favorited at least 5 times for a given hashtag. What I am doing right now is: - search for all tweets that include the hashtag - count how many times each of them have been favorited by the (~1,500) followers of my account. (For this I use the favorite API method). What I would like to achieve is: - find out how many times each of those tweets has been favorited by any users (not just my followers). But it seems this can't be done. - query the API in a simpler way (right now I have to constantly check the tweets that have been favorited by each of my 1,500 followers just to see if they happen to have favorited any of the tweets that contain the hashtag in question). Thanks, Gustavo On May 23, 10:22 am, bum meest...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone gotten result_type=popular to work in the search api? I must be doing something silly since for the life of me I can't get it to return any results. On May 22, 11:52 pm, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I'll try that. On May 22, 12:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Try using the popular feature of the search method:http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search Abraham On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 15:28, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to develop a web-based application that will search for the most favorited tweets for a given hashtag. For example, a user may type cerati in a textbox and the application will return the tweets that contain the hashtag #cerati and have been favorited more than x (3, 4, 5) times. My questions are: - Is this possible? - If so, what method should I use? It appears to me that if I use the search API I don't get a favourite_count among the results. And I can't specify something like minimum amount of times tweet was favorited as a parameter. Or maybe I can use the search API to get the tweets that contain the hashtag and then iterate thorugh the list to obtain the number of times each tweet was favorited? Another alternative: instead of doing this with the public timeline (ideal solution) do it for all tweets by the users a person is following. Can this be done? Thanks for your help. Gustavo -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Newbie question - please help.
Has anyone gotten result_type=popular to work in the search api? I must be doing something silly since for the life of me I can't get it to return any results. On May 22, 11:52 pm, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I'll try that. On May 22, 12:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Try using the popular feature of the search method:http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search Abraham On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 15:28, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to develop a web-based application that will search for the most favorited tweets for a given hashtag. For example, a user may type cerati in a textbox and the application will return the tweets that contain the hashtag #cerati and have been favorited more than x (3, 4, 5) times. My questions are: - Is this possible? - If so, what method should I use? It appears to me that if I use the search API I don't get a favourite_count among the results. And I can't specify something like minimum amount of times tweet was favorited as a parameter. Or maybe I can use the search API to get the tweets that contain the hashtag and then iterate thorugh the list to obtain the number of times each tweet was favorited? Another alternative: instead of doing this with the public timeline (ideal solution) do it for all tweets by the users a person is following. Can this be done? Thanks for your help. Gustavo -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Newbie question - please help.
result_type=popular won't do it for my project. This criterion is very restrictive. Even if one searches for a widely used hashtag such as #cerati, no results or very few results will show up as popular. In fact, if you search for twitter you get only a couple of popular tweets! Furthermore, the problem with result_type=popular is that you cannot measure exactly how popular any of the results are. You can't order them by popularity either. How many times have they been RT? How many times have they been favorited? It's a black box. What I would like to do is to query the API in such a way that I can get, for instance, all tweets that have been favorited at least 5 times for a given hashtag. What I am doing right now is: - search for all tweets that include the hashtag - count how many times each of them have been favorited by the (~1,500) followers of my account. (For this I use the favorite API method). What I would like to achieve is: - find out how many times each of those tweets has been favorited by any users (not just my followers). But it seems this can't be done. - query the API in a simpler way (right now I have to constantly check the tweets that have been favorited by each of my 1,500 followers just to see if they happen to have favorited any of the tweets that contain the hashtag in question). Thanks, Gustavo On May 23, 10:22 am, bum meest...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone gotten result_type=popular to work in the search api? I must be doing something silly since for the life of me I can't get it to return any results. On May 22, 11:52 pm, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I'll try that. On May 22, 12:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Try using the popular feature of the search method:http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search Abraham On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 15:28, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to develop a web-based application that will search for the most favorited tweets for a given hashtag. For example, a user may type cerati in a textbox and the application will return the tweets that contain the hashtag #cerati and have been favorited more than x (3, 4, 5) times. My questions are: - Is this possible? - If so, what method should I use? It appears to me that if I use the search API I don't get a favourite_count among the results. And I can't specify something like minimum amount of times tweet was favorited as a parameter. Or maybe I can use the search API to get the tweets that contain the hashtag and then iterate thorugh the list to obtain the number of times each tweet was favorited? Another alternative: instead of doing this with the public timeline (ideal solution) do it for all tweets by the users a person is following. Can this be done? Thanks for your help. Gustavo -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Newbie question - please help.
Hi Gustavo Favorious ( a href=http://favorious.com;http://favorious.com/a ), which is a website I have recently launched, can do exactly what you want. Cheers Georgios On May 23, 11:17 pm, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: result_type=popular won't do it for my project. This criterion is very restrictive. Even if one searches for a widely used hashtag such as #cerati, no results or very few results will show up as popular. In fact, if you search for twitter you get only a couple of popular tweets! Furthermore, the problem with result_type=popular is that you cannot measure exactly how popular any of the results are. You can't order them by popularity either. How many times have they been RT? How many times have they been favorited? It's a black box. What I would like to do is to query the API in such a way that I can get, for instance, all tweets that have been favorited at least 5 times for a given hashtag. What I am doing right now is: - search for all tweets that include the hashtag - count how many times each of them have been favorited by the (~1,500) followers of my account. (For this I use the favorite API method). What I would like to achieve is: - find out how many times each of those tweets has been favorited by any users (not just my followers). But it seems this can't be done. - query the API in a simpler way (right now I have to constantly check the tweets that have been favorited by each of my 1,500 followers just to see if they happen to have favorited any of the tweets that contain the hashtag in question). Thanks, Gustavo On May 23, 10:22 am, bum meest...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone gotten result_type=popular to work in the search api? I must be doing something silly since for the life of me I can't get it to return any results. On May 22, 11:52 pm, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I'll try that. On May 22, 12:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Try using the popular feature of the search method:http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search Abraham On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 15:28, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to develop a web-based application that will search for the most favorited tweets for a given hashtag. For example, a user may type cerati in a textbox and the application will return the tweets that contain the hashtag #cerati and have been favorited more than x (3, 4, 5) times. My questions are: - Is this possible? - If so, what method should I use? It appears to me that if I use the search API I don't get a favourite_count among the results. And I can't specify something like minimum amount of times tweet was favorited as a parameter. Or maybe I can use the search API to get the tweets that contain the hashtag and then iterate thorugh the list to obtain the number of times each tweet was favorited? Another alternative: instead of doing this with the public timeline (ideal solution) do it for all tweets by the users a person is following. Can this be done? Thanks for your help. Gustavo -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
[twitter-dev] Re: Newbie question - please help.
Thanks, I'll try that. On May 22, 12:35 pm, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Try using the popular feature of the search method:http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search Abraham On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 15:28, gus gus...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to develop a web-based application that will search for the most favorited tweets for a given hashtag. For example, a user may type cerati in a textbox and the application will return the tweets that contain the hashtag #cerati and have been favorited more than x (3, 4, 5) times. My questions are: - Is this possible? - If so, what method should I use? It appears to me that if I use the search API I don't get a favourite_count among the results. And I can't specify something like minimum amount of times tweet was favorited as a parameter. Or maybe I can use the search API to get the tweets that contain the hashtag and then iterate thorugh the list to obtain the number of times each tweet was favorited? Another alternative: instead of doing this with the public timeline (ideal solution) do it for all tweets by the users a person is following. Can this be done? Thanks for your help. Gustavo -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire |http://abrah.am @abraham |http://projects.abrah.am|http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
