Hi,
> Hi,
>
> I am new to the Twitter API world and appreciate your help.
>
> I am trying to do some sentiment analysis around few topics. The
> options that I think I have (although dont know if these options
> actually exist)
>
> 1. download last one month of tweets (related to various topic) and
> then run sentiment analysis on them
>
> or
>
> 2. run the Search API (w/ query = "topic") several times in a day and
> collect the tweets over a period of month and then do the data
> analysis. the problem with this method is that twitter rate limits how
> many search query one can make in a day (white-listing seems to be
> taking ages)
>
> I am sure several people have done similar things in past. would
> really appreciate if you could please share your thoughts/experience.
>
Ad 1. afaik you cannot just download the past month from twitter. Search
results only go back a couple (~5) of days, depending of traffic.
Ad 2. If you're not interested in past events that might work. However, I'd
advise using the Streaming API with the track parameter. This should do
exactly what you want and you don't have to query multiple times, and thus
risk to be banned/blacklisted.
cheers
-d
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