Thanks Doug and Cameron, About the query I heard Twitter allows only 140 characters as well.
Problem is: I want to set up dynamically little communities with people who join and share twitter name. One way to do is creating a new twitter account for the community and ask people to follow, or ask for his password and get him following by myself. The community account would be created when the first person join in. If I could follow unrelated people whose twitter names I know It wouldn't be necessary to create thousands of community accounts on twitter. Any thoughts? Thanks for your time and engagement. @marcosnobre On Mar 8, 3:02 pm, Cameron Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Cameron, but will it work for a bunch of specific people, like > > a query "@john OR @mary OR @jesse OR @lisa OR @onandon"? > > Not without work. You can do that in three ways: > > - Get the public timeline/firehose with the API, and filter it to the people > you want. > > - Make a user that follows those people, and then fetch that user's friends' > timeline. (This is my recommendation, especially if your following list > does not change extremely rapidly.) > > - Use the search API, although hundreds of query terms may be considered > unfriendly. > > In all of these situations you will need to consider ratelimiting, > particularly the first two. > > -- > ------------------------------------ personal:http://www.cameronkaiser.com/-- > Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems *www.floodgap.com* [email protected] > -- Of course, what I really want is total world domination. -- Linus Torvalds > -
