Re: [twitter-dev] twitter streams API related question
To be very simple: Streams = future, REST = past If it's 8 AM, you should start your application that uses the Stream API and stop it at around 9:45 AM. Then, for every tweet that comes in, you would check the time and decide to use it or not. With the REST API, you execute some requests at 9:45 AM, going back to 9:00 AM. Depending on the amount of tweets sent about AAPL, this may be a lot of requests. I'd recommend using the Streams API and keep a small program running to archive (or whatever you want to do with them) the tweets. Tom On 9/29/10 2:36 PM, rakesh wrote: Hi - I would like to download (all) the tweets in the public timeline that correspond to a particular keyword (or keywords) from a specific start time to end time. Would the streams API help me do this. For example - all tweets (from all users) that contain the keyword 'AAPL' between 9 AM and 9:30 AM EST. I realize that the number of requests is rate-limited and hence will not result in all tweets - if one gets whitelisted - is it possible ? Any other way ? Thanks in advance for your answer(s) Rakesh -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] twitter streams API related question
Actually, for keyword searches of the past, wouldn't you use Search, not REST? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu: To be very simple: Streams = future, REST = past If it's 8 AM, you should start your application that uses the Stream API and stop it at around 9:45 AM. Then, for every tweet that comes in, you would check the time and decide to use it or not. With the REST API, you execute some requests at 9:45 AM, going back to 9:00 AM. Depending on the amount of tweets sent about AAPL, this may be a lot of requests. I'd recommend using the Streams API and keep a small program running to archive (or whatever you want to do with them) the tweets. Tom On 9/29/10 2:36 PM, rakesh wrote: Hi - I would like to download (all) the tweets in the public timeline that correspond to a particular keyword (or keywords) from a specific start time to end time. Would the streams API help me do this. For example - all tweets (from all users) that contain the keyword 'AAPL' between 9 AM and 9:30 AM EST. I realize that the number of requests is rate-limited and hence will not result in all tweets - if one gets whitelisted - is it possible ? Any other way ? Thanks in advance for your answer(s) Rakesh -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
Re: [twitter-dev] twitter streams API related question
With streaming, the present quickly becomes the past. I'd much rather a developer think pro-actively and capture the tweets they need as they happen rather than go spelunking through the past as depicted by the Search API. I think Tom was referring to the Search API when saying REST of course. Nitpicky nitpicky :). Taylor On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:22 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zn...@borasky-research.net wrote: Actually, for keyword searches of the past, wouldn't you use Search, not REST? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu: To be very simple: Streams = future, REST = past If it's 8 AM, you should start your application that uses the Stream API and stop it at around 9:45 AM. Then, for every tweet that comes in, you would check the time and decide to use it or not. With the REST API, you execute some requests at 9:45 AM, going back to 9:00 AM. Depending on the amount of tweets sent about AAPL, this may be a lot of requests. I'd recommend using the Streams API and keep a small program running to archive (or whatever you want to do with them) the tweets. Tom On 9/29/10 2:36 PM, rakesh wrote: Hi - I would like to download (all) the tweets in the public timeline that correspond to a particular keyword (or keywords) from a specific start time to end time. Would the streams API help me do this. For example - all tweets (from all users) that contain the keyword 'AAPL' between 9 AM and 9:30 AM EST. I realize that the number of requests is rate-limited and hence will not result in all tweets - if one gets whitelisted - is it possible ? Any other way ? Thanks in advance for your answer(s) Rakesh -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
