[twitter-dev] Re: Rate Limiting question

2010-01-03 Thread Joel Hughes
Hi all, thanks for your responses. John, I did take a look at the stream api but was put off by the big disclaimer saying it could change very frequently and be down for extended periods. Also, I was kinda trying to avoid the issue I was seeing in search where certain tweets were not being indexed

[twitter-dev] Re: since_id basic usage confusion

2009-05-08 Thread Joel Hughes
...ok, I THINK I may have answered my own question I believe I made an assumption (warning sounds going off anyone?) that the XML returned would be in status_id order - nope! Now that I've adjusted for that I think I'm back on course. ...next issue for me us trying to look at paging Joel

[twitter-dev] since_id basic usage confusion

2009-05-07 Thread Joel Hughes
Hi all, I have looked at the API and searched this group but can't find the answer. I've created some code which is doing a search and doing some analysis on the results and then poking the results into a database. Simple enough. This code then runs a few minutes later. I obviously don't want t