[twitter-dev] Re: ? API method to get popular hashtags

2010-11-14 Thread b3zra1y
Thanks for the response. I'll check out your code. I should have clarified a bit more. I'm looking for the most popular hashtags within the Twitter DB. I would then like to be able to obtain a reference to the tweets that use these popular hashtags. Ideally, I would be able to obtain the text of e

[twitter-dev] Re: ? API method to get popular hashtags

2010-11-14 Thread b3zra1y
Thanks, I looked at that. But I need more than 10. Ideally, i can identify the top ~1000 or more hashtags. Any way to achieve that? On Nov 14, 8:47 pm, Jonathan Reichhold wrote: > Have you considered the trends api?  Popular hashtags for many locations are > included in the trends.  You can then

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: ? API method to get popular hashtags

2010-11-14 Thread Jonathan Reichhold
Have you considered the trends api? Popular hashtags for many locations are included in the trends. You can then use the search api to find examples of those trends. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/trends http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search Jonathan On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 5:12 PM, b3zra1y w

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: ? API method to get popular hashtags

2010-11-14 Thread Adam Green
I may be too much of a database guy :), but my instinct is always to grab what I can, normalize it into a set of database tables, and then do the analysis myself. I always learn more that way. If you want the top tags for all tweets, you can access the sample method of the streaming API, get the ta

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: ? API method to get popular hashtags

2010-11-14 Thread Edward Hotchkiss
I agree. A large dataset always leads to a query to make your own "api call". Best, -- Edward H. Hotchkiss http://www.edwardhotchkiss.com/ http://www.twitter.com/edwardhotchkiss/ -- On Nov 14, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Adam Green wrote: I may be too much of a database g