[twitter-dev] Streaming API -- filtering with punctuation

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Kieltyka
Hey guys, Is it at all possible, in some way or another to specify a filter with a period? I've been working on an image streaming service and up till now I have been just filtering on: twitpic,yfrog,pic However, we'd also like to stream in links from ow.ly, but I would have to filter on ow to

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API -- filtering with punctuation

2010-03-26 Thread John Kalucki
The combinatorics don't work out here until we offer boolean AND. Tokens are thrown against a HashMap to determine delivery. It's not really feasible to also throw arbitrary combinations of tokens against the HashMap. If we ever support AND, then you could search for ow AND ly. You'll have to

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API -- filtering with punctuation

2010-03-26 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On 03/26/2010 10:32 AM, John Kalucki wrote: The combinatorics don't work out here until we offer boolean AND. Tokens are thrown against a HashMap to determine delivery. It's not really feasible to also throw arbitrary combinations of tokens against the HashMap. If we ever support AND, then you

Re: [twitter-dev] Streaming API -- filtering with punctuation

2010-03-26 Thread John Kalucki
You really shouldn't pick your systems based on what Twitter uses unless all else is the same. Our requirements are radically different from yours. I'd encourage you to use the same libraries though -- for example, if we're using Gson to parse JSON, you are unlikely to run into additional