So in other words....I could set up something that basically says....everytime a twit is lead by a ~ character...pull that post and post it to my feed?

Also...all that stocktwits is basically doing is having an RSS feed?

2/28/2009 2:38:04 PM

you could set up a feed that would contain every post that contained the ~ character

and then set up a script/daemon on your site that would RT every one of those posts every time it showed up on the feed

and yes, they are basically just pulling from the rss feed search of $

2/28/2009 2:39:53 PM

so if i go tweet $fuck stocktwits it would show up

2/28/2009 2:42:01 PM

So if I wanted to set this up....would this be when I'd have to dive into the whole API developer thing?

In order to put let's say all ~ on my website, I'd have to get a php script (for example) that pulls it and posts to my site right? There are a hundred wikis ....which one would be the best way to go?

2/28/2009 2:45:44 PM

no, you wouldn't really need to get into any sort of API

just pull the XML feed into your php script and use simplexml to parse it or just traverse the DOM tree

if you have no idea what i'm talking about, you're going to be better off hiring someone to do it for you

2/28/2009 2:46:55 PM

Let's say I sort of know what you're talking about.....Any chance you could direct me to the scripts I'd need? I mean I currently have a thing on my website that pulls RSS feeds and parses them so it's similar to that then I could probably figure it out..... I use magpie to parse the feeds...is that the same idea of what you're talking about?

2/28/2009 3:10:49 PM

hrmf......
So I tried testing just a basic thing and it ain't working
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4011.html

2/28/2009 3:43:45 PM

can you explain in more detail what you're trying to do?
rss feeds already exist for twitter so you shouldn't need to use the API for anything

for example, the feed for 'tww' is http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=tww

just plug the feed url into whatever you already have to display feeds on your website

2/28/2009 3:47:21 PM

Well I guess I'm trying to figure out a couple things....

The first thing was that I was trying to figure out how to have, let's say, my own Twitter updates on a website of mine...

The second thing is that I'm basically trying to figure out how something like http://stocktwits.com/ works. I assume that they're just saying (via their code whatever it is) if you see a $ sign anywhere in anyone's twitter update, then pull that post and post it it to our page.......

right?

2/28/2009 3:59:12 PM

1. users have built in feeds for their updates as well. plug it into magpie or a wordpress plugin or whatever and ready to go
2. you pretty much got the right idea

2/28/2009 4:00:56 PM

hmmm....OK....so a couple questions...
1) Since I use magpie for other RSS feeds...if I wanted to have the twitter feed 'look' like they do on twitter...is their a specific way to format it?

2) Is there an escape character I'd need in order to find say all posts that have the $ sign? Right now it's not pulling anything if I use that sign.

3) So then if I'm trying to just pull my own twitter updates, how do I get those? I tried doing something like @mytwitteraccount but that didn't work....?

2/28/2009 4:09:40 PM

Whats your twitter M2C?

2/28/2009 4:59:26 PM

haha Willy Wonka

Quote :

"superbowl party was a disaster. oompa-loompas have been stretching and squeezing naughty guests for hours. don't ask about the choco-lake."

2/28/2009 10:31:39 PM

This is not too important but I am grateful that I can see Erykah Badu's tweets now. YAY!!

https://twitter.com/fatbellybella

3/1/2009 1:06:49 AM

i don't really know of any scripts that do what you want to do... but i haven't really looked

it's really very simple, and any solution you find on the web, you're gonna have to customize to meet your exact needs, so why not just write one yourself?

hell, if you want, i could whip something together real quick for you. but only because i totally <3 you.

3/1/2009 6:48:36 AM

yo

http://www.skittles.com

shit just got real

3/2/2009 1:55:37 AM

How do most of you find people outside of those you have in your address book? For instance - I'm getting a fair amount of requests from people I don't know, and wondering how they found me.

3/3/2009 8:37:25 AM

by looking at the people my friends are talking to

also, in tweetdeck you can have a panel for searches. so for example i have a panel for 'Charlotte OR CLT' and if i see somebody say something interesting, i check out their profile/post history and maybe follow them

probably about half the people who follow me that i didn't already know are just promoting a service of some kind. i just ignore them

3/3/2009 9:25:29 AM

i have 74 followers

less than 20 are people i know IRL

add in tww people (who i obviously still don't know IRL, mostly) and you're up to MAYBE 27 or 28

so i'd say a good 2/3 of my followers are complete strangers

i pick up most of my folks through hashtag comments

i.e., i know i'm going to pick up some people on thursdays because i talk about #LOST
i know i'm going to pick up some people on fridays because of #followfriday
and a lot of times if i'm extra bored, i'll check out the most popular searches and play along with the random #hashtags going around

like last week i picked up a few followers after i made up some #fakeanimalfacts

and like qntm said, you do searches

in no way should twitter just be you following and being followed by people you actually know

3/3/2009 7:43:41 PM

speaking of adding followers

http://ronation.co.uk/general-business/10-best-places-to-get-twitter-followers/

3/4/2009 2:35:33 AM

so facebook is evolving itself to be more like twitter. i'm sure tons of people are gonna hate it at first, but it'll all blow over within a month

http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage_tour.php
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/04/live-from-facebook-a-move-to-share-more-information/

3/4/2009 3:32:59 PM

also, jon stewart talks about twitter

3/4/2009 3:49:46 PM

oh snap.

3/4/2009 4:03:05 PM

hahaha Willy Wonka..

Quote :

"W_Wonka okay, so i did some jail time over the superbowl party incident involving guests stuck in the chocolate pipes. fool me twice..."

3/4/2009 11:32:44 PM

I, too, use twitter occasionally

3/5/2009 12:00:25 AM

Actually, I'm one of the youngest people at the Triangle Tweetups. It's mostly 35-50 year olds at the events.

3/5/2009 9:38:33 AM

i can't imagine the torture it must be to be an attractive, young female nerd. especially at a gathering like that.

3/5/2009 11:18:20 AM

Naw, most of them are married. Relatively un-creepy.

3/6/2009 12:16:47 AM

tweeter
skeeter
peter

3/6/2009 2:36:07 AM

3/7/2009 12:48:24 PM

Penny Arcade still has the best twitter cartoon i've ever seen

Quote :

"I'M A TWITTER SHITTER"

3/8/2009 1:00:50 AM

http://twitter.com/blight9

Apparently I signed up for this at some point... because I got two emails from people "following me" even though I've never logged in until today (because I got the email notification).

wtf...

3/12/2009 12:39:52 PM

FOLLOWED

3/13/2009 8:15:04 AM

the #3hotwords meme right now is perfect for tww's

Quote :

"THREE WORD QUOTE"

meme

3/15/2009 2:54:35 AM

http://www.twitter.com/ReceiveDeath

3/15/2009 12:06:34 PM

Quote :

"THE_REAL_SHAQ: @caroline is the best she is so nice should I kiss her on the cheek pls advise"

3/15/2009 6:49:25 PM

Ars Technica is following me now, woo I am so bad ass!

3/15/2009 8:17:19 PM

I am about to unfollow MC Hammer and P Diddy, they tweet WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY :breath: YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY to fucking much for absolutely nothing and push interesting shit down to the bottom.

3/16/2009 11:48:38 AM

^^ me too

3/16/2009 11:54:45 AM

3/18/2009 2:07:28 PM

^haahaha

3/19/2009 12:53:06 AM

http://www.twitter.com/sawahash

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3/19/2009 12:55:43 AM

damn

this place is starting to look like twwitter.com

3/19/2009 12:58:40 AM

its funny because it doesn't fully grasp the irony of using a platform (streaming web video) hosted on a website that wouldn't exist without the early adopters of twitter to mock twitter

and by "its funny" i mean "its annoying as fuck"

i did chuckle like a motherfucker at the fail whale

3/19/2009 1:04:59 AM

i broke 1000 updates tonight btw

3/19/2009 2:58:00 AM

aww <3 the whale

3/19/2009 7:11:48 AM

http://twitter.com/bmparson

3/23/2009 10:31:27 AM

i'm thinking of moving my twitter to twitter.com/kenwarner

3/23/2009 11:13:39 AM

I unfollowed the following for overflowing my Twitter Home with MANY MANY MANY MANY unnecessary tweets on a daily basis that were saying nothing relevant pretty much about anything:

@P Diddy
@MC Hammer
@Souljaboytellum

Good riddance.

3/25/2009 1:05:39 PM

set em up

3/25/2009 3:41:25 PM