So I did a little research about creating mashups and, from what I have gathered, it seems like the best way to go about doing it is by using the SWX data format. SWX stands for SWF Data Exchange Format and is basically a way for flash to access twitter API stuff using actionscript. Read about it on here if you guys have time:
http://apiwiki.twitter.com/SWX+Twitter+API
and check this out:
http://swxformat.org/php/explorer/
The second link is a way practice using the SWX methods without having to actually hard code it in flash. If you click on “Twitter” and then click on the “GetPublicUpdates” in the “Methods” drop down menu, you can call a bunch of recent twitter posts.
It seems like if we continually call this function in a loop or timer, then read the text using an if/else statement, discarding anything that doesn’t have the word “America” and saving anything that does, we should be able to get something simple running.
mschoenf 9:43 pm on April 15, 2009 Permalink |
if we even kinda pull this off it’s going to be awesome
Twitter Search 12:51 am on May 27, 2009 Permalink |
thats great that you are talking about the twitter api,a good example of searching with the twitter api is on twiogle.com because you can search on twitter and google at the same time.