To be very simple: Streams = future, REST = past If it's 8 AM, you should start your application that uses the Stream API and stop it at around 9:45 AM. Then, for every tweet that comes in, you would check the time and decide to use it or not.
With the REST API, you execute some requests at 9:45 AM, going back to 9:00 AM. Depending on the amount of tweets sent about AAPL, this may be a lot of requests. I'd recommend using the Streams API and keep a small program running to archive (or whatever you want to do with them) the tweets. Tom On 9/29/10 2:36 PM, rakesh wrote: > Hi - > > I would like to download (all) the tweets in the public timeline that > correspond to a particular keyword (or keywords) from a specific start > time to end time. Would the streams API help me do this. > > For example - all tweets (from all users) that contain the keyword > 'AAPL' between 9 AM and 9:30 AM EST. > > > I realize that the number of requests is rate-limited and hence will > not result in all tweets - if one gets whitelisted - is it possible ? > > Any other way ? > > Thanks in advance for your answer(s) > Rakesh > -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
