Dan, You can use the Gnip notification feeds to obtain some of this information. For example, their data provides the user that is being replied to and I use this to create the "Top 10 @replies" on http://tweetstats.com/twitter_stats
dpc On Feb 7, 4:10 pm, Dan <slightlyoffb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the answers. Currently we can pull trends for all tweets, > but I am looking through the APIs to find a way to pull trends for all > posts that are a reply to a particular user, or all posts that contain > a particular hashtag. This way you can find trends from a particular > group of users, as opposed to all of twitter. > > On Feb 7, 12:49 pm, Alex Payne <a...@twitter.com> wrote: > > > We provide an API method to retrieve current > > trends:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Search+API+Documentation#Trends > > More information about the > > firehose:http://apiwiki.twitter.com/FAQ#Whenwillthefirehosebeready > > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 08:50, Sam Sethi <samkse...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > So when will the firehose be available and on what format xmpp. It > > > used to exist ... Waiting to see of we use gnip xmpp firehose or > > > Twitter? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Sam > > > > W:www.twitblogs.com/ssethi > > > M: +44 7985 705075 > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > On 7 Feb 2009, at 16:31, Chad Etzel <jazzyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I believe for that you will need the firehose and do your own analysis > > > > on what defines a "trend" in your point of view... Other than that, I > > > > don't readily see a way to get that kind of info from current > > > > resources. > > > > > -Chad > > > > > On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Dan <slightlyoffb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >> Has anyone found a way to work the API to get this sort of > > > >> functionality? We are able to determine the top 10 trends for all of > > > >> twitter at any given time, but what about trends for all @replies > > > >> to a > > > >> particular user, or trends in posts that contain a particular > > > >> hashtag? > > > -- > > Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc.http://twitter.com/al3x > >
