No one?
On Jan 4, 3:20 pm, GeorgeMedia <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I sure hope you can help. I am developing a web based app that > searches forlocationbased tweets using the search API with json > results. I provide the longitude latitude via my own local database on > my server. Presently I'm limited to just the US and Canada but I'm > thinking I might be able to pull long/lat data dynamically from sites > like hostip.info or even maybe the yahooapi? > > As you can imagine I am salivating in anticipation of the > trends.locationapi because parsing the text from the individual > tweets is a pain in the behind :) > > But back on point... I'm using the search api exclusively because > that's the only way I know of to get localized tweets. I read the > streaming/firehose search api docs but it doesn't seem to support > geocode parameters. So my first question is, am I correct in assuming > that presently the only way to getlocationbased tweets is using the > geocode parameter on the search api? > > Secondly, I'm in a bit of a unique situation from what I can see form > other apps in that it's a bit tough to run a cron because there are > over 200,000 longitude/latitude sets in my database and that's just > the US and Canada! > > So how could I possiblycachethe data so that when a user queries > some random city so they can see local tweets for that city it's > available without doing an api call every time a user types in a city? > Because if my site gets popular that could become a problem very > quickly. > > If I can think it I usually can code it but being new to using > twitter's API and limits I'm a bit stuck.
