Yes, but advertisers and sales people are obsessed with the past, and they provide the dollars that will make Twitter grow. We'll see where this leads Twitter. I bet they follow the money. Google did, and it worked out OK. :)
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: > I can't really speak much on the topic of the analytics tool. I can say that > you'll find most everything in Twitter is focused on real-time -- whether > it's search results, the tweets available for a given user timeline, or the > general structure and emphasis presented by our UI. There's not much on > Twitter that allows one to dwell on the past. > Taylor > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Adam Green <140...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Taylor, there has been much talk lately about the new Twitter >> Analytics tool that would deliver historical data. Am I correct in >> assuming that this is built on an internal API, and that this API will >> be surfaced eventually for use by us developers? >> >> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Taylor Singletary >> <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> wrote: >> > Hi James, >> > You'll find that, in most cases, the data available for a trend is >> > limited >> > by the amount of data provided by the Search API. While this goes back >> > around 10 days currently, there have been times when less was available. >> > Some day we hope to provide more historical data. >> > Taylor >> > >> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 1:24 PM, James Chivers <jchiv...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm trying to dig out some hourly trend data from the Twitter API >> >> using the trends/daily call with the associated date that I'm looking >> >> for, but I'm not able to go back in time more than ~10 days. >> >> >> >> Is there any way that I'm able to grab the hourly trend data given a >> >> date > 10 days from the API? >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> >> >> James >> >> >> >> -- >> >> 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 >> > >> > -- >> > 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 >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Adam Green >> Twitter API Consultant and Trainer >> http://140dev.com >> @140dev >> >> -- >> 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 > > -- > 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 > -- 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
