[twitter-dev] return count

2011-02-07 Thread new developer
Has there been any updates/improvements to the API that will allow me
to search on a term and request a count of the number of term
mentions? Is this something I can achieve through the API?

thanks!

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Re: [twitter-dev] return count

2011-02-07 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi there,

Still not much in the way of counting methods in the Twitter Search API.
There are a few services out and about that do a decent job approximating
such things. For instance, Topsy: http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/

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Advocate


On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:44 AM, new developer gvi...@rochester.rr.comwrote:

 Has there been any updates/improvements to the API that will allow me
 to search on a term and request a count of the number of term
 mentions? Is this something I can achieve through the API?

 thanks!

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Re: [twitter-dev] return count

2011-02-07 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:02:17 -0800, Taylor Singletary 
taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote:

Hi there,

Still not much in the way of counting methods in the Twitter Search
API. There are a few services out and about that do a decent job
approximating such things. For instance,
Topsy: http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/ [1]

@episod [2] - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:44 AM, new developer  wrote:
 Has there been any updates/improvements to the API that will allow
me
 to search on a term and request a count of the number of term
 mentions? Is this something I can achieve through the API?

 thanks!


If you look at Kevin Weil's slides from Strata 
(http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/rainbird-realtime-analytics-at-twitter-strata-2011), 
I'd say the strategy would be


1. Develop a validated business model.
2. Wait for the Cassandra / Rainbird patches described to go open 
source.
3. Subscribe to Gnip's PowerTrack 
(http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-firehose-filtering-with-power-track/) and 
feed it to your Cassandra / Rainbird instance.


Don't skip step 1 - at ten cents a kilotweet it will take you longer 
than it will take Twitter to open source the Cassandra / Rainbird 
patches. ;-)


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