@Cameron You're right. It would work just like that. How about my solution of dynamically created twitter accounts. Can I do that throught API?
@Doug If I get what you mean members would insert the community hashtag in order to get listed, right? Not good enough. I want all tweets from those people so the other members could get to know each other. Thanks guys. Marcos @marcosnobre On Mar 8, 3:19 pm, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
