Re: [swift-discuss] YQL Twitter interface?

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Latest testing: I installed the tweetstream gem and it appears to be working fine on my machine here. It may need to have the yajl-ruby gem installed - I got an error and when I installed that gem, it went away. But I was able to connect to the "sample" stream and get tweet objects and look at their guts in the debugger. And the documentation looks pretty good - better than the documentation for the Perl library.

One other note: tweetstream came from a company called Intridea. I followed them on Twitter (@intridea) and discovered they were involved in some way in the CrisisCamp! I think Washington DC, but I haven't actually talked to any of them yet. So I'm guessing this is a keeper. I'm not sure whether I'll be using it for my personal projects - I still have this desire to stick with Perl and ActiveState for a number of reasons - but it looks good for SwiftRiver and CrisisFilter and any other Ruby stuff using Twitter Streaming.

I got a response from Twitter on elevated access. They think that if we're just tracking the #haiti hashtag, we ought to be getting everything using the "track" option on the "filter" stream. That, of course, is Twitter Streaming API jargon that you all might not understand yet. I'll jump back in once there's a consensus that

a. We're going with Streaming
b. We're doing it in Ruby



Can't help you on the free servers directly, but between OSUOSL and the other alternatives, I'm pretty sure something can be done.

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Charl van Niekerk <cha...@plugg.co.za> wrote:

On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:34 -0800, Anselm Hook wrote:
> Hmmm, Meedan has a rack where I am hosting makerlab.org - I'd be happy
> to give you a root account there if you want to do it tonite.

Cool, I'm still going to be online for a couple of hours so whenever
suits you best.

> Alternatively somebody could dig out a credit card and throw up an EC2
> instance - although that starts to get pricey - might be best to ask
> the folks at Amazon if we can have it for free. Heroku removed caps
> off of http://crisisfilter.heroku.com because we asked... maybe we can
> get a deal with Amazon also?
>
> Actually - a best bet: there are people at Yahoo that will give us
> free servers - The Crisis Camp mailing list will definitely have
> several folks who can offer that. I specifically remember one person -
> a Jeremy at Yahoo - who flat out offered that at Crisis Camp MTL.

Sounds great! Is that the list you copied? Will log on to Google Groups
in an hour or so and join as well.

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[Charl van Niekerk]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Anselm Hook <ans...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can twitter stream filter by geography?

Seems like it's possible, but only for properly geotagged tweets:

http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streaming-API-Documentation#locations

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Yeah, if you have a geotag filter, non-geotagged tweets are dropped - it doesn't look at profile location of the tweeter.

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Thanks for reminding me - I think I'm going to do a blog post on geotagging.