Hello, I think you should divide up your tasks to get comfy with the API. 1. Write a page to search for a hastag, then just display the results. 2. See what kinds of results you can drive from the data.
The reason I say this is because, 1 is easy, and displays how nice the API is to get started. 2 is more difficult because a) you have to do a lot of counting, sorting on your end to come up with those types of conclusions. Search is a moving window, meaning, results in the past beyond a certain point, are gone, so you wont be able to say, give me all for #iranelection, for example. So you then have to get as much data as possible, possibly store it in a DB, and then start crunching it. Also, If you are going to have a consumer facing site, where actions are specific to a user and need to be stored, then probably best to start with oAuth implementation (http://twitter.abrah.am/) and go from there. Peter On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:31 AM, shaundunne <thedarkp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Im looking to get into some twitter development. My PHP knowledge is > OK - i understand most implementations. I wondered if anyone suggests > where i start? Ive read some of the documentation on the twitter API > but i am unsure if what i'd like to do is possible. Ive seen plenty of > php libraries out there, can anyone recomend one that best for using > the search API? > > What i basically want to do is search for a hashtag, and then display > the results: > > #this > > Tweeted:1000 times > Re-Tweeted:100 times > Total tweets : 1100 times. > > Is this possible to do? > > thanks > -- Peter M. Denton www.twibs.com i...@twibs.com Twibs makes Top 20 apps on Twitter - http://tinyurl.com/bopu6c
