hi,Taylor I read the documents listed, but none of these offers explanations for the problem that I face. Maybe I'm wrong? Regards Alfredo
2010/7/28 Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> > Hi Alfredo, > > I recommend taking a look at the Twitter Streaming API at > http://dev.twitter.com/pages/streaming_api for an application like this. > > Taylor > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Alfredo Baraldi < > alfredo.bara...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm creating an application that relies on public / timeline: this >> application must must be select the posts that have a value >> preceded by "$" character, eg "Today I buy $AAPL to the stockexchange >> i like apple industries", and then i store them in a database. My >> question is this: is it true that you can not because "the problem >> here is mostly due to volume. A cron-driven php script will not be >> able to filter the whole stream, since there is a limit on number of >> returned results, and people post quicker than we can receive?. For >> instance, if you search something rather generic twitter, there will >> be thousands of new results after a few minutes; we can only fetch 20 >> posts through public timeline" >> >> At this URL "http://stocktwits.com/streams/all"; there is an >> application that responds to my own needs, and reformulating the >> question: with the current Twitter API is it possible to create an >> application that aggregates all the Twitter messages that contain a >> symbol preceded by the character "$" ? >> Best Regards >> Alfredo >> > >
