Marcos, Have you considered popularizing hashtags for each of these communities. You could then search on the hashtag rather than the individual users.
Doug @dougw On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 1:13 PM, MarcosNobre <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 - > -- Doug Williams [email protected] http://www.igudo.com
