Find Peoples/Profiles using Twitter Search API
We are developing an application by using Twitter Search API. Given below is the URL for API: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation#Methods and for Atom: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=keyword According to API, it'll search only from Tweets. Following are my scenarios: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=keyword Scenario 1: Enter Jagdip in place of keyword It gives me zeero result Scenario 2: Enter Jagdip_singh2k9 in place of keyword it gives me results. If we look into Twitter search API, these are valid results. But our requirement is that, when we enter Jagdip in place of keyword, it gives me Jagdip_singh2k9 result as it also contains Jagdip. Is there any provision to get the result for Tweets as well as for the Username and people profiles? Can someone provide some guidenace regarding this, it will be really helpful. - Jagdip
Re: Find Peoples/Profiles using Twitter Search API
Jagdip, There is no ability to specify a regular expression-like search (jagdip*) but you get 140 chars so use them wisely. For instance, you could always do something like http://search.twitter.com/search?q=jagdip+OR+jagdip_singh2k9 which will return an inclusive set from the search of jagdip and jagdib_singh2k9 Does that meet your needs? @dougw On Jan 27, 5:39 am, Jagdip jagdeepsingh...@gmail.com wrote: We are developing an application by using Twitter Search API. Given below is the URL for API: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation#Methods and for Atom: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=keyword According to API, it'll search only from Tweets. Following are my scenarios: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=keyword Scenario 1: Enter Jagdip in place of keyword It gives me zeero result Scenario 2: Enter Jagdip_singh2k9 in place of keyword it gives me results. If we look into Twitter search API, these are valid results. But our requirement is that, when we enter Jagdip in place of keyword, it gives me Jagdip_singh2k9 result as it also contains Jagdip. Is there any provision to get the result for Tweets as well as for the Username and people profiles? Can someone provide some guidenace regarding this, it will be really helpful. - Jagdip
Twitter on MySpace
Hi I'm not a developer (the opposite end of the spectrum I'm afraid) but could anyone help me with regards to a widget/code/or whatever else it is I need to do to get Twitter on my MySpace page? The kind of thing I'm after is how these guys have done itwww.myspace.com/geronimomusic I'm sure it's dead easy - but I just don't know how! Thanks, Eloise
Twitdom - A Twitter Applications Database
Hi There, I'm the founder of Twitdom - The Twitter Applications Database at http://twitdom.com/ We currently have over 350 Twitter Applications listed on the website under various categories which can be accessed via different tags as well, for convenience. I would love to get some feedback from this community on what you think of the website. Do note that its still the 1st month of the site being up! :-) Positive feedback and even criticism is welcome! We would love to build features on top of what we already have to make it more usable for all of you. Regards, Anuj
Re: is any twitter app, that allows for translation of tweets into different langs?
I have a site http://5and2fish.com that is a twitter and google mashup that will do a translation on the tweets for you. It uses the twitter search api then geocodes the results and places them on the map. There is an option in the lower right corner to translate the text on result set. It is fun to see what people are tweeting over in Asia! It uses the google translate api to detect and translate to the language of your choice. Ryan On Jan 26, 11:01 pm, tobi elnat...@gmail.com wrote: thanks... will check that out and will search and see if anybody has created an app to solve this need. thanks again tobi On Jan 26, 4:48 pm, Matt Sanford m...@twitter.com wrote: Hi there, There is a translate feature on search.twitter.com, but that's the only one I know of. Thanks; — Matt Sanford On Jan 26, 2009, at 08:44 AM, tobi wrote: sorry i am a novice but is there any twitter app, that allows ur tweets to be translated into different languages or that which allows you to read other languages in ur language, like a twitter language conversion app, ? just asking does anybody know of an app that can do that
Re: Twitter app user poaching
2009/1/27 Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com: I have been contemplating sending this email for a long time, and finally have decided to just do it, so here goes: I understand that we are all trying to gain large user-bases for our twitter apps, and I know there are several tactics to go about doing it; but I am wondering what is everbody's opinion on the tactic I refer to as twitter app user poaching in which app devs tweet out to people right after a user mentions some other app in their tweets: @somebody hey, if you like insert competitor app here you should try my app! http://link.to.my.app.com/ Obviously people are monitoring their app's brand and their competitors' brand, which is obviously a savvy business strategy in general... but somehow to me, in the twitter ecosystem, this feels kinda sleazy. I have consciously tried to avoid doing this because a) the aforementioned sleaziness, and b) i don't think my followers would appreciate a stream of constant hey check out my app tweets. Maybe I am alone here, what does everyone else think? This would not be so bad if some of the apps that have started poaching mine were brand new and not very well known yet. But at least a couple have received a lot of coverage on the big social media blogs (mashable, techcrunch, etc...). None of my apps have had such coverage (and yes, I am willing to admit I am jealous of that fact, but it is what it is), and despite that, I have had a lot of fun growing my user-base organically through twitter itself and my users' word-of-mouth recommendations. I don't really appreciate others coming in and sniping my users away. So, maybe I'm just being weak and need to grow a pair and deal with it (by either a) sucking it up, or b) engaging in poaching myself, or c) both). Maybe all is fair in love and tweets... Would love to hear about others' experiences in this area. Personally I see this as healthy competition. If you're worried about people using alternatives to your app you should probably find out why and improve your app rather than complaining about dirty tactics from the competition. My TwitApps Replies service has quite a few competitors and I keep seeing people tweeting that they're running several at the same time to see which best meets their needs. Whenever I see that I always contact them to try and get feedback, good or bad, so I can make Replies better. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/
Re: Twitter app user poaching
On 27/1/09 19:07, Chad Etzel wrote: Hi all, I have been contemplating sending this email for a long time, and finally have decided to just do it, so here goes: I understand that we are all trying to gain large user-bases for our twitter apps, and I know there are several tactics to go about doing it; but I am wondering what is everbody's opinion on the tactic I refer to as twitter app user poaching in which app devs tweet out to people right after a user mentions some other app in their tweets: @somebody hey, if you likeinsert competitor app here you should trymy app! http://link.to.my.app.com/ Obviously people are monitoring their app's brand and their competitors' brand, which is obviously a savvy business strategy in general... but somehow to me, in the twitter ecosystem, this feels kinda sleazy. I have consciously tried to avoid doing this because a) the aforementioned sleaziness, and b) i don't think my followers would appreciate a stream of constant hey check out my app tweets. Maybe I am alone here, what does everyone else think? This would not be so bad if some of the apps that have started poaching mine were brand new and not very well known yet. But at least a couple have received a lot of coverage on the big social media blogs (mashable, techcrunch, etc...). None of my apps have had such coverage (and yes, I am willing to admit I am jealous of that fact, but it is what it is), and despite that, I have had a lot of fun growing my user-base organically through twitter itself and my users' word-of-mouth recommendations. I don't really appreciate others coming in and sniping my users away. So, maybe I'm just being weak and need to grow a pair and deal with it (by either a) sucking it up, or b) engaging in poaching myself, or c) both). Maybe all is fair in love and tweets... Would love to hear about others' experiences in this area. They probably *should* try other apps, so they find one that suits them best. Hopefully yours! You can't please all the users, all of the time. Worry less about people comparing, and more about building an app that will compare well. Maybe they'll try the others, go back to yours, and then write about why they preferred it. BTW I've been having trouble with Twhirl today, and posted about it, got useful feedback from twhirl users and developers, as well as people using other apps. We all have different constraints and preferences, and exploring the different design possibilities is a healthy and natural thing... cheers, Dan -- http://danbri.org/
Re: Twitter app user poaching
I was not aware of this tactic, but I agree with Stuart. The users should and will decide which apps are sleazy and which are not. If the followers of a poacher don't care for the tactic, they will vote with a click of the un-follow button and take their traffic elsewhere. On Jan 27, 1:25 pm, Stuart stut...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/1/27 Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com: I have been contemplating sending this email for a long time, and finally have decided to just do it, so here goes: I understand that we are all trying to gain large user-bases for our twitter apps, and I know there are several tactics to go about doing it; but I am wondering what is everbody's opinion on the tactic I refer to as twitter app user poaching in which app devs tweet out to people right after a user mentions some other app in their tweets: @somebody hey, if you like insert competitor app here you should try my app!http://link.to.my.app.com/; Obviously people are monitoring their app's brand and their competitors' brand, which is obviously a savvy business strategy in general... but somehow to me, in the twitter ecosystem, this feels kinda sleazy. I have consciously tried to avoid doing this because a) the aforementioned sleaziness, and b) i don't think my followers would appreciate a stream of constant hey check out my app tweets. Maybe I am alone here, what does everyone else think? This would not be so bad if some of the apps that have started poaching mine were brand new and not very well known yet. But at least a couple have received a lot of coverage on the big social media blogs (mashable, techcrunch, etc...). None of my apps have had such coverage (and yes, I am willing to admit I am jealous of that fact, but it is what it is), and despite that, I have had a lot of fun growing my user-base organically through twitter itself and my users' word-of-mouth recommendations. I don't really appreciate others coming in and sniping my users away. So, maybe I'm just being weak and need to grow a pair and deal with it (by either a) sucking it up, or b) engaging in poaching myself, or c) both). Maybe all is fair in love and tweets... Would love to hear about others' experiences in this area. Personally I see this as healthy competition. If you're worried about people using alternatives to your app you should probably find out why and improve your app rather than complaining about dirty tactics from the competition. My TwitApps Replies service has quite a few competitors and I keep seeing people tweeting that they're running several at the same time to see which best meets their needs. Whenever I see that I always contact them to try and get feedback, good or bad, so I can make Replies better. -Stuart --http://stut.net/
Re: Twitter app user poaching
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Would love to hear about others' experiences in this area. Chad, One thing I've done is to create two distinct accounts for the SnapTweet application@snaptweet and @snaptweetdev. Eventually, I perceived that supporting so many users with their issues on the main account was just noise to almost everyone. So now, whenever I see someone who needs help, I @-reply them from the dev account and invite them to email me if it's too long for Twitter. No noise for my primary followers and I can keep to posting minimal and quality tweets on the main account at choice opportunities. It's worth noting that these are separate from my personal account (@damon). As to the poaching question, it *is* a competition for user mindshare and users cannot decide if they like your app or some feature of your app, if they don't know about it. So while repetitive check out my app tweets could definitely get annoying, I think that being generally helpful to users who are trying to find solutions to let them kick ass, can only help you grow your user base. Best, -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon
Re: Twitter app user poaching
Thanks all for you feedback. I do agree that it is a free market and people will indeed vote with their clicks. I don't just sit back and hope that people stick around on my apps. I am always proactively (and sometimes reactively) adding features to my apps to improve them. And competition is always a good thing, for all parties involved. Just wanted to gauge people's opinion about competitive promotional strategies. Game on, -Chad On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Damon Clinkscales sca...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Chad Etzel jazzyc...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Would love to hear about others' experiences in this area. Chad, One thing I've done is to create two distinct accounts for the SnapTweet application@snaptweet and @snaptweetdev. Eventually, I perceived that supporting so many users with their issues on the main account was just noise to almost everyone. So now, whenever I see someone who needs help, I @-reply them from the dev account and invite them to email me if it's too long for Twitter. No noise for my primary followers and I can keep to posting minimal and quality tweets on the main account at choice opportunities. It's worth noting that these are separate from my personal account (@damon). As to the poaching question, it *is* a competition for user mindshare and users cannot decide if they like your app or some feature of your app, if they don't know about it. So while repetitive check out my app tweets could definitely get annoying, I think that being generally helpful to users who are trying to find solutions to let them kick ass, can only help you grow your user base. Best, -damon -- http://twitter.com/damon
Re: Find People Functionality
Not in the API yet. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 14:50, AG ankushg...@gmail.com wrote: Does this not exist? Using the search API, I can make search for tweets work but can't find people. Is there a function or code available within the API that allows you to search for users by name? Twitter.com has this functionality under Find People and search doesn't let you find people by their name (only if you put in their username). -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
