oops, forgot to include this. If you're really looking to get up and running, here is the twitter search based widget, ready to go.
http://twitter.com/goodies/widget_search On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Peter Denton <[email protected]>wrote: > Its pretty easy to build a widget, from fetching the results, parsing them, > and presenting them, twitter makes it easy to do. > > With all that extra time, your developers should be able to find global > stop lists of words that prevent displays of harassing/vulgar/racist > language and continue to add rules as you go to create a content stream that > works for your company. > > Don't get me wrong, Ken's points are very valid, however, I personally feel > if you have a company people talk about, show other people this content. 1 > page of perfectly written marketing isn't going to reach me as much as 10 > tweets saying, I really really love this product. (imo) > > Regards > Peter > > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ken Dobruskin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't know anything about Wordpress or plugins, but is there any >> moderation workflow built into these widgets? I just had to cringe at the >> silly results produced by the indiscriminate use of a twitter search feed by >> one colleague from a highly respectable international organisation. It's not >> a matter of censoring negative remarks about your brand - evidently you are >> prepared for that. But what happens when someone says something really, >> really dumb, vulgar or racist involving your searchterm? Can you handle all >> the world's languages? It could be a fun opportunity for spammers or >> competitors! Even assuming that your brandname is universally unambiguous >> and could only ever refer to your business, you may be in for a case of >> 'irrelevant automated content syndrome'. >> >> Have fun! >> >> Ken >> >> > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:31:49 -0800 >> > Subject: [twitter-dev] How to monitor our brand by Streaming API >> > From: [email protected] >> > To: [email protected] >> >> > >> > Dear Developers, >> > >> > We would like to monitor what have been tweeted about our brand and we >> > would like to publish this up to minute >> > >> > tweets on our wp based blog >> > >> > What should be the best WP-Plugin coded by Twitter Search Streaming >> > API ? >> > >> > Thank you for your help, >> > >> > Best Regards, >> >> ------------------------------ >> Keep your friends updated— even when you’re not signed >> in.<http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/see-it-in-action/social-network-basics.aspx?ocid=PID23461::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-xm:SI_SB_5:092010> >> > >
