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After playing with Twitter's streaming API this year I started to think of all the cool possibilities out there. If you could depend on a bot for a real-time response to any query… Well, there's a lot you could do. Targeted results, calculations, even two-way interactions, all from the…
Over the last few months I've been playing around with Twitter's streaming API. I'm still at the tinkering stage, with a grand project in mind that's slowly being imagined. For a while the thought of a steady of stream of information was something that PHP just couldn't handle. Then I bumped into…
There's been something bugging me about interacting with Twitter through its API. Sure, it's easy enough to pull data for records, even if you're building your own OAuth request by hand. Its not too hard to take that logic a step further and post tweets on a schedule either, something that thousands…