Thanks for the answers.  Currently we can pull trends for all tweets,
but I am looking through the APIs to find a way to pull trends for all
posts that are a reply to a particular user, or all posts that contain
a particular hashtag.  This way you can find trends from a particular
group of users, as opposed to all of twitter.

On Feb 7, 12:49 pm, Alex Payne <[email protected]> wrote:
> We provide an API method to retrieve current 
> trends:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation#Trends
> More information about the 
> firehose:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#Whenwillthefirehosebeready
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 08:50, Sam Sethi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > So when will the firehose be available and on what format xmpp. It
> > used to exist ...  Waiting to see of we use gnip xmpp firehose or
> > Twitter?
>
> > Thanks in advance
>
> > Sam
>
> > W:www.twitblogs.com/ssethi
> > M: +44 7985 705075
>
> > Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 7 Feb 2009, at 16:31, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I believe for that you will need the firehose and do your own analysis
> > > on what defines a "trend" in your point of view... Other than that, I
> > > don't readily see a way to get that kind of info from current
> > > resources.
>
> > > -Chad
>
> > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > >> Has anyone found a way to work the API to get this sort of
> > >> functionality?  We are able to determine the top 10 trends for all of
> > >> twitter at any given time, but what about trends for all @replies
> > >> to a
> > >> particular user, or trends in posts that contain a particular
> > >> hashtag?
>
> --
> Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x

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