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Andrew Drozdov
Andrew Drozdov

Reputation: 2183

What sort of technologies were used to build NoHomophobes.com (real-time keyword tracker for Twitter)?

Do you think that they plugged directly into the Twitter API, or do they have some sort of backend which is what connects to the Twitter API directly instead? I didn't realize this kind of functionality was available to standard users.

Link: NoHomophobes.com

Upvotes: 1

Views: 301

Answers (2)

Jason
Jason

Reputation: 11

Basically, the site uses the Twitter Streaming APIs which allow a persistent connection with Twitter. And as filtered tweets come through, it processes the data and delivers it to website users through web sockets via a 3rd party service called Pusher.

Upvotes: 1

KenD
KenD

Reputation: 5318

This site has a (short) piece about the technology used - it does seem like they're using the standard, public API:

"Using Twitter's API, tweets [...] were pulled, tracked and displayed in real time

[...]

We couldn't simply pull every tweet ... A lot of research and testing was conducted to determine which words and phrases to capture, as well as what parameters the tweets had to follow in order to be funneled onto the site"

Also, the site's own T&C's mention

This website contains a licensed real time display of Tweets

At a guess, they're effectively continually searching for certain terms in public tweets (as any Twitter client can do) and displaying the results.

Upvotes: 1

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