[twitter-dev] Re: Best way to get tweets from me, to me, mentioning me

[Nicole Simon]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 06:47, Scott Haneda talkli...@newgeo.com wrote:


 Thanks.  These users will be mobile, largely, and asking them to log in to
 see what will amount to comments is asking too much.  This is more a add
 on feature that some may find value in.


Why would they want to see their own messages then?

besides that, going for @username is good in the search - except the search
has proven to provide unreliable results in the past. sign up for a service
like tweetlater and hootsuite and do the same tracking in all three
services, and notice the differences.

add the @replies on the website and it is the best to cache the results back
at your place. ;)

NIcole

[twitter-dev] Re: Best way to get tweets from me, to me, mentioning me

[Scott Haneda]

Thanks.  These users will be mobile, largely, and asking them to log  
in to see what will amount to comments is asking too much.  This is  
more a add on feature that some may find value in.


Looks like search it is.

On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:41 PM, Raffi Krikorian wrote:

if you were to allow people to log in, then there are a few great  
API methods


/statuses/friends_timeline
/statuses/mentions

those would do exactly what you want.

unfortunately, you're right, without logging in, you're only left  
with the search API.  your query seems like the best one, and the  
one that i would use.




Hello, what is the best way to get tweets that are from me OR to me  
OR mentioning me?


I have been playing with with search API:
feed://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from:some_user+...@some_user

I believe that does what I want, but was not sure if the search API  
is the best place to be making these calls.


In some ways, this is similar to the widgets that people shove  
into their blogs.  My goal will be to not hassle the user with  
entering in their login/pass, so oauth is out for this one.


All these requests will come from one server, maybe more if the  
service grows :) I assume I will need to apply for whitelisting? Or  
is the search API pretty lenient on requests?


If there is a specific API call, or combination of them I should be  
using, and then request whitelisting, I am not objectionable, as I  
personally have found non search API based calls to return more  
reliable results.




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