[twitter-dev] Re: Combining multiple API Searches into the Streaming API

2010-02-03 Thread Ronald
Thanks for the feedback. Implementing the API was a lot easier then expected, my code is rather modular, so replacing the search component is easy. I only need one more step that actually breaks down the single stream output into matches per search I want to do. While it's an extra step in my

[twitter-dev] Re: Combining multiple API Searches into the Streaming API

2010-02-03 Thread Jason Striegel
I'll second Dewald's advice with one caveat. If you ever expect your search results to increase to a point where you're getting regular rate limiting (as :) and :( can certainly do that), I'd recommend looking into the Streaming API now. You'll have to add a lot of extra parsing and joining on

[twitter-dev] Re: Combining multiple API Searches into the Streaming API

2010-02-02 Thread Damon C
Your assumption is correct. You'll have to do your own parsing. On Feb 2, 12:52 pm, Ronald ronald.bradf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm presently migrating some of my code base to the Streaming API, and I have a question regarding the filter/track syntax. Currently I run multiple searches on

[twitter-dev] Re: Combining multiple API Searches into the Streaming API

2010-02-02 Thread Dewald Pretorius
Ronald, In my opinion, if: a) You don't so much care about getting every single tweet that contains the keywords, but can live with the tweets being filtered and ranked for relevance (not a bad thing at all); b) You don't mind now and again getting a rate limit error; and c) You have search