I'm looking for a simple way to count tweets over specific time periods, and I have little concern for the tweet contents at this time. I've taken a quick look at the Search API and I'm not sure this is possible without transferring the tweet contents and counting them based on their timestamps.
For example, I'd like to be able to determine the number of tweets with one specific search word each day, and be able to store, and later graph the daily results over several months. It would be nice, but not essential, to be able to do this with hourly granularity also. I'm an embedded systems C programmer, and I can imagine doing this in C or some scripting language run on Linux or Windows. With some time I'm sure I could code this in C myself, but it would be nice if there was some tool(s) already in existence for this. Thanks ! Mike.
