Hi all -
I'm looking for an API method that will return a list of popular
hashtags.
I'm new to the API, but at first glance I don't see such a method.
Can you point the way ?
THANKS
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Are you looking for the most popular hashtags out of all tweets or
within a set of tweets about a specific subject? If it is the later,
what I do is use the streaming API to collect all tweets for certain
keywords, parse out the hashtags within them, and store them in a
MySQL database. Then I can
Thanks for the response.
I'll check out your code.
I should have clarified a bit more.
I'm looking for the most popular hashtags within the Twitter DB.
I would then like to be able to obtain a reference to the tweets that
use these popular hashtags.
Ideally, I would be able to obtain the text of
Have you considered the trends api? Popular hashtags for many locations are
included in the trends. You can then use the search api to find examples of
those trends.
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/trends
http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search
Jonathan
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:12 PM, b3zra1y
Thanks, I looked at that.
But I need more than 10.
Ideally, i can identify the top ~1000 or more hashtags.
Any way to achieve that?
On Nov 14, 8:47 pm, Jonathan Reichhold jonathan.reichh...@gmail.com
wrote:
Have you considered the trends api? Popular hashtags for many locations are
included in
I may be too much of a database guy :), but my instinct is always to
grab what I can, normalize it into a set of database tables, and then
do the analysis myself. I always learn more that way. If you want the
top tags for all tweets, you can access the sample method of the
streaming API, get the
I agree. A large dataset always leads to a query to make your own api
call.
Best,
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Edward H. Hotchkiss
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On Nov 14, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Adam Green wrote:
I may be too much of a database
