I'm trying to build a web application that compiles the trends in a
particular vertical around mentions of people's names as a gauge of
popularity. I was planning to use the Ellerdale Project's API but
they're shutting it down after getting acquired.
The use case would look something like
I'm not sure they're going to be able to do what you want, but there's
an open source project called 140kit.com that just started up. They're
very light on documentation at the moment but it looks like they hook
up to the filter Streaming end point and capture raw tweets, then
allow you to
