On 8/13/10 10:34 AM, Abhi wrote: > Hi All, > > What is the best way of counting the number of tweets containing a > phrase "The Lost World" > > 1. Is there an API call, I can make to retrieve this information > or > 2. Should I make an Search API call for the keyword at regular > interval and store the tweets in my database and analyze this data. > (although this might be affected by the rate limit of the API usage)
I would say that using the Streams is best for this - option 3. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/statuses/filter Tom