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 run analytics jobs against the captured tweets.
The gotcha is that the samples have to have a definite end point -
you have to freeze a sample to be able to post-process it.
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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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Quoting shopperdev dricharddesi...@gmail.com:
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 Ellerdale's illustration but
for a different type of vertical: http://trends.ellerdale.com/trends/politics
I'd like to query the twitter API to get number of mentions/messages
relating to a name over a defined period of time (1 hour, 1 day). Is
it possible to do this? Seems like you need access to the firehose and
have a very compute-intensive back-end to derive this.
Or is there another aggregation service with an API you know of?
Thanks
Neil
