On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:02:17 -0800, Taylor Singletary
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi there,
Still not much in the way of counting methods in the Twitter Search
API. There are a few services out and about that do a decent job
approximating such things. For instance,
Topsy: http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/ [1]
@episod [2] - Taylor Singletary - Twitter Developer Advocate
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 9:44 AM, new developer wrote:
Has there been any updates/improvements to the API that will allow
me
to search on a term and request a count of the number of term
mentions? Is this something I can achieve through the API?
thanks!
If you look at Kevin Weil's slides from Strata
(http://www.slideshare.net/kevinweil/rainbird-realtime-analytics-at-twitter-strata-2011),
I'd say the strategy would be
1. Develop a validated business model.
2. Wait for the Cassandra / Rainbird patches described to go open
source.
3. Subscribe to Gnip's PowerTrack
(http://blog.gnip.com/twitter-firehose-filtering-with-power-track/) and
feed it to your Cassandra / Rainbird instance.
Don't skip step 1 - at ten cents a kilotweet it will take you longer
than it will take Twitter to open source the Cassandra / Rainbird
patches. ;-)
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