[twitter-dev] Re: Finding the most popular trending topics

2009-09-07 Thread Håkan Jonsson

Hi,

Adding some kind of weight value or sorting of the returned trending
topics would be a very good feature, for example to be able to create
nice word clouds.

/Håkan

On Aug 24, 6:21 am, Chad Etzel  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is currently no way to get the number of retweets/tweets of
> trending topics through the API.
>
> Thanks,
> -Chad
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:34 PM, TrixJo wrote:
>
> > Trying to find the most popular trending topics.
>
> > Currently using:
>
> >http://search.twitter.com/trends/current.json?exclude=hashtags
>
> > Is there a way that I can find the most popular trending topics as
> > well as the number of retweets for each topic?
>
> > That way I can save the trending topics in my database as well as the
> > number of retweets currently retweeted for each topic and I can rank
> > each trending topic myself based on the number or retweets
>
> > tahnks


[twitter-dev] Re: Finding the most popular trending topics

2009-08-23 Thread Chad Etzel

Hi,

There is currently no way to get the number of retweets/tweets of
trending topics through the API.

Thanks,
-Chad

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 5:34 PM, TrixJo wrote:
>
> Trying to find the most popular trending topics.
>
> Currently using:
>
> http://search.twitter.com/trends/current.json?exclude=hashtags
>
>
> Is there a way that I can find the most popular trending topics as
> well as the number of retweets for each topic?
>
> That way I can save the trending topics in my database as well as the
> number of retweets currently retweeted for each topic and I can rank
> each trending topic myself based on the number or retweets
>
> tahnks
>