Try using the popular feature of the search method: http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/search
Abraham On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 15:28, gus <gus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I want to develop a web-based application that will search for the > most favorited tweets for a given hashtag. For example, a user may > type "cerati" in a textbox and the application will return the tweets > that contain the hashtag #cerati and have been favorited more than x > (3, 4, 5) times. > > My questions are: > - Is this possible? > - If so, what method should I use? > > It appears to me that if I use the search API I don't get a > favourite_count among the results. And I can't specify something like > "minimum amount of times tweet was favorited" as a parameter. > > Or maybe I can use the search API to get the tweets that contain the > hashtag and then iterate thorugh the list to obtain the number of > times each tweet was favorited? > > Another alternative: instead of doing this with the public timeline > (ideal solution) do it for all tweets by the users a person is > following. Can this be done? > > Thanks for your help. > > Gustavo > -- Abraham Williams | Developer for hire | http://abrah.am @abraham | http://projects.abrah.am | http://blog.abrah.am This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private.
