Comments on: Twitter alerts: using twitter streaming API for fun and profit

By: David Pardo

David Pardo — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:35:34 +0000

Mark, remember to use https instead of http

By: David Pardo

David Pardo — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:34:57 +0000

Try http://php.net/manual/en/function.set-time-limit.php

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:37:25 +0000

Is it possible to increase the 60 second timeout on the watch.php file? I let it run, but get a Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 60 seconds exceeded in …/twitterwatch/watch.php on line 27

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:56:10 +0000

hi! I tried to run your code but I’m getting this error:
Warning: fopen(http://…@stream.twitter.com/1/statuses/filter.json) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. in E:\wamp\www\twitter\app\demo\twitter_watch\watch.php on line 17

what could be the possible cause of this?

By: David Pardo

David Pardo — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:07:05 +0000

Pzelnip, you’re right. Seems that lately tweeter frowns upon storing the tweets in a database, at least as as permanent store. Anyway, when I first contacted them about two years ago, they told me that the technique described in the article was ok, or at least no reason for a ban. So, I guess that the spirit of the norm is that they don’t want people making tools to analyze past tweets using streaming API.
Thank you so much for your comment.

By: Pzelnip

Pzelnip — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:19:12 +0000

Perhaps I’m mistaken, but isn’t storing tweets into a database a violation of the Terms of Service (TOS) for the streaming API?

https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms

Reads:

“You may export or extract non-programmatic, GUI-driven Twitter Content as a PDF or spreadsheet by using “save as” or similar functionality. Exporting Twitter Content to a datastore as a service or other cloud based service, however, is not permitted”

Seems to me that a SQL db would constitute a “datastore”, and that this datastore is used to drive a “service”.

By: Twitter Real Time Search « thewayofcode

Twitter Real Time Search « thewayofcode — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:35:26 +0000

[...] Blog post that really helped me with the javascript part of the development: http://blog.corunet.com/twitter-alerts-using-twitter-streaming-api/ [...]

By: Jose Manuel

Jose Manuel — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 22:57:54 +0000

Briliant, very interesting and easy! mi admiración por ocmpartirlo.

Rico, to make it work with https, change in file watch.php, line 15:

$instream = fopen(‘http:

for

$instream = fopen(‘https:

and you are set!

cheers

By: Felipe Signorini

Felipe Signorini — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:03:35 +0000

Awesome, this tutorial is pratice and good. Really a like to see de continuos posts, phirehose….

By: Al

Al — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 10:55:27 +0000

Great article!

One question. What syntax should I use to combine predicates eg. add a track and a location? I’m trying things like… ‘track=’twitter&locations=360,180′ but not having success.

Thanks.
Al