Thanks Taylor! This was helpful. On Jan 12, 12:01 pm, Taylor Singletary <[email protected]> wrote: > There are no "search within a set" capabilities really in the Twitter API or > Search API. There are a few approaches you can take, but all of them defer > the "search" part of operation to you and you'll have to accept that you'll > not have the full possible dataset to search against. > > One popular way to search within a given set of users is to assemble a > Twitter List containing the users of interest, paginate through the List > timeline as your needs (and the data supply) allows, and then perform the > search against the tweets/metadata retrieved, acknowledging that a list > doesn't comprise all of the tweets (or any of the retweets) authored by the > users on the list (@replies / tweets beginning with a @mention to users not > belonging to the list are excluded). > > Other methods are retrieval of various (user) timelines, merging them > together, then searching against. > > The most efficient way to collect tweets for a given set of public users > when historical tweets are not important is to use the "follow" feature of > the Streaming API. > > Taylor > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Abhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks. I looked at it but It just allows me to search for twitter > > feed from one user. I want to be able to search for twitter feed from > > multiple users at once. > > > On Jan 12, 12:30 am, Mauro Asprea <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi you can take a look at http://dev.twitter.com/doc;) > > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Abhi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, I am New to the Twitter search API and was wondering if someone > > > > can please help me on where to find some guidance on how to use > > > > Twitter Search API to find tweets from a group of twitters. > > > > > Thanks for all the help in advance > > > > > -- > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > > Mauro Sebastián Asprea > > > > E-Mail: [email protected] > > > Mobile: +34 654297582 > > > Skype: mauro.asprea > > > > Algunos hombres ven las cosas como son y se preguntan porque. Otros > > sueñan > > > cosas que nunca fueron y se preguntan por qué no?. > > > George Bernard Shaw > > > -- > > 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
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