Re: [twitter-dev] Track streaming : how to match tweets?

2009-12-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:15:21PM -0800, Julien wrote: > If I get a tweet, the only way to know what keyword it matches is to > compare all of its words to the words I'm tracking... (mayvbe there is > something easier). > > That's quite "hard" but it becomes harder if I add operands. Say I > have

Re: [twitter-dev] Track streaming : how to match tweets?

2009-12-02 Thread John Kalucki
Julien, Parsing the status text and matching the tokens against your local predicate set is neither computationally complex nor particularly difficult to code. In fact, such an implementation is practically indistinguishable from indicating which predicates matched on our end -- you'd still have t