One could get started gathering these metrics by analyzing search queries in the vein of:
feed://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=source:tweetdeck On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Shannon Clark<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > This isn't specific to the app I'm building at the moment, but the recent > thread on how to determine who is using your application reminded me of a > general question I have about the APIs. > > Is there is an API call to return information about updates done via a given > application? (i.e. the information which is available via the website about > which application was used to post a given status update). Ideally I could > see utility for queries of this form via multiple of the API's - as a filter > on the streaming API's for example or as an option to filter upon via other > API's calls or just as metadata inherent with each update which an app could > choose whether or not to use in some manner. > > Ideal would be options to both positively filter and negatively filter - > i.e. for an app to offer a blacklist of applications your users do not wish > to see updates which were posted by those apps (but might want to see some > aggregated information about what you have negatively filtered - i.e. > @rycaut has 3 recent updates from PlaySpymaster which aren't displayed etc. > > At scale I could also see useful data for the developer community about > activity & usage patterns of our applications - both raw usage (i.e. # of > status updates) but also diversity of usage (# of unique users, % of those > users' updates per app type, etc). Potentially as well Twitter might offer > aggregated data about usage patterns (perhaps only as relative usage w/o > specific data) which could include patterns of usage from even accounts set > private (without revealing anything about those accounts just adding their > data into aggregated totals - and again if the specific data isn't shown > then certain attacks on privacy could be avoided) > > Anyway, perhaps there are already ways to access this data, if so I'd > appreciate a pointer to them, if not, I hope this sparks some discussion. > > Shannon > > Founder, Nearness Function - strategic consulting, brand advertising & > sponsorships > Twitter - rycaut > Blogs: Slow Brand - http://slowbrand.com > Searching for the Moon - http://shannonclark.wordpress.com > -- Kevin Mesiab CEO, Mesiab Labs L.L.C. http://twitter.com/kmesiab http://mesiablabs.com http://retweet.com
