I am a uni student, I am very new to the twitter api, i have been making an aplication in "Processing" to show tweets coming up on a world map in real time. im not trying to get the post its the geocodes i want, with lots of help from people here and on the processing forums i have made it so that it plotts the geocode in my application as a dot and this will represent twitter posts from all around the world.
link to a picture of my app to give you an idea: http://yfrog.com/b7worldstarmapj here is the quiry i am using: search.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json? location=-168.75,9.79,158.90,83.02 The problem i am getting is that i am getting a twitter post about every 30 seconds with this and after about 5/10 posts it stops feeding me the posts and wont let me connect for about another hour. OVER VIEW OF WHAT I WANT TO ACHIEVE - geocode of posts from all around the would not just one place - i dont need what they have posted but if i get it then its a bonus - i need to be able to recieve this information at a reasonable speed (i dont know if im allowed because of the quiry limit) - any sugestions of different quirys or code are VERY WELCOME here is my processing code is anyone is interested: import com.twitter.processing.*; // // test tweet counting (not sure if it will work) int tweetCount; // this stores how many tweets we've gotten int tweets = 0; // and this stores the text of the last tweet String tweetText = ""; Geo tweetGeo; double lati, longi; float latiFl, longiFl,latiMap, longiMap; int textsize; void setup() { size(1000,600); background(0); // set up twitter stream object TweetStream s = new TweetStream(this, "search.twitter.com", 80, "1/statuses/filter.json?location=-168.75,9.79,158.90,83.02", "Usser", "PASSWORD"); s.go(); smooth(); } void draw() { fill(0); rect(0,450,1000,150); textsize = 12; // set up fonts PFont font; font = createFont("ArialMT-48.vlw", textsize); textFont(font); textSize(textsize); fill(255); //converts double to float latiFl = (float)lati; longiFl = (float)longi; //map value to screen latiMap = map(latiFl, -90, 90, 0, width); longiMap = map(longiFl, -180, 180, 0, height); // and draw the text of the last tweet text(tweetText, 20, 520); // adn its lat and long text("lat = " + lati + " long = " + longi,20,560); text("number of tweets:" +tweetCount, 880, 580); for( int i = 0; i < 7000; i++){ fill(255); ellipse(latiMap, longiMap, 5,5); /* fill(0); rect(0,500,1000,100); */ } } // called by twitter stream whenever a new tweet comes in void tweet(Status tweet) { // print a message to the console just for giggles if you like // println("got tweet " + tweet.id()); // store the latest tweet text tweetText = tweet.text(); tweetGeo = tweet.geo(); lati = tweetGeo.latitude(); longi = tweetGeo.longitude(); println("lat = " + lati + " long = " + longi); // bump our tweet count by one tweets += 1; println("number of tweets:" +tweetCount); tweetCount++; } thanks for looking -- 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
