Not to mention that the query for the search API is limited to 140 characters (or it was the last time I checked). So you'd need to split up your query and then thread the results by timestamp afterward (if time is of concern for your app...).
Not really an elegant solution/implementation, but I could imagine that the database query needed to the equivalent on the back-end servers would not exactly be trivial either. -Chad On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Matthew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > You could implement this in the following way. > > 1. get all the follows of "techcrunch" > 2. search for the keyword you want, saying "from: username1 OR > username2 OR ... usernameN" > > an example > > http://search.twitter.com/search?q=github+from%3Alebreeze+OR+matthewrudy > > shows all the tweets about github from myself and my friend Levent. > > Although with 32000 usernames I imagine it wont be fast, > and you'd have to iterate over 320 requests to /statuses/followers.xml > in order to grab all their usernames. >
