thanks for the input. I'll take a look at the slides. On Feb 7, 1:54 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zn...@borasky- research.net> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 10:02:17 -0800, Taylor Singletary > > > > <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com> 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-tw...), > 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. ;-) > > -- > http://twitter.com/znmebhttp://borasky-research.net > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul > Erdős
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