Re: [twitter-dev] Hashtag widget

2009-12-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
That sounds very similar to the original design of fishtwits.com (and I submitted Twitter::TagGrep to CPAN, which handles the filtering by hashtag part in Perl), although we eventually decided not to worry about hashtags and just filter on any occurence of the words of interest, tagged or not. I h

Re: [twitter-dev] Hashtag widget

2009-12-03 Thread John Kalucki
Ben, You should use the filter resource on the streaming api to receive this information. Either use the follow parameter to select a list of users or use the track parameter to select the hashtag, and then perform the secondary processing on your end. The upside of follow is there is no rate limi

[twitter-dev] Hashtag widget

2009-12-03 Thread BenR
Hi all just wondering if anyone has done anything with hashtags. I'd like to be able to display only posts from selected accounts using a specific hashtag. So I need to have an array of accounts and search these posts for a hashtag and if the hashtag is used pull the post into a widget. Has anyo