http://disqus.com/by/mepatterson/enMon, 28 Sep 2009 13:00:34 -0000http://intridea.com/2009/9/22/tweetstream-ruby-access-to-the-twitter-streaming-api?blog=company#comment-17725805<p>More followup:</p><p>Thanks, Michael. Yeah, I didn't suspect it was anything in TweetStream. Was just hoping you guys knew more about how the twitter api was handling things. My tweets eventually DID appear, but after a number of minutes. My guess is that low-trending keywords are not indexed for the streaming api as quickly as top-trending ones are. That's my current theory, at least. :)</p>mepattersonMon, 28 Sep 2009 13:00:34 -0000http://intridea.com/2009/9/22/tweetstream-ruby-access-to-the-twitter-streaming-api?blog=company#comment-17722090<p>Okay, followup: Maybe I'm not understanding the twitter streaming API correctly, but I feel like it's not working reliably. If I set a TweetStream daemon to follow a top-trending topic, I get all sorts of results. But if I set it to follow (using the filter method) a couple of people and track a couple of keywords for an upcoming event that isn't really being talked about heavily yet, i get none of the test tweet either I or a coworker tries sending. Is there some reason why twitter streaming api would fail to send back tweets using unpopular tracking terms?</p>mepattersonMon, 28 Sep 2009 11:28:38 -0000http://intridea.com/2009/9/22/tweetstream-ruby-access-to-the-twitter-streaming-api?blog=company#comment-17292254<p>thanks, i got it working. not sure what was going on. maybe the user id I was tracking wasn't valid or something. &lt;shrug&gt;</p>mepattersonThu, 24 Sep 2009 10:19:26 -0000http://intridea.com/2009/9/22/tweetstream-ruby-access-to-the-twitter-streaming-api?blog=company#comment-17289234<p>Weird. I wonder why mine isn't working then? If I just do a single keyword, it's fine. But if I do 1 keyword and 1 user id, I don't get anything.</p>mepattersonThu, 24 Sep 2009 09:17:07 -0000http://intridea.com/2009/9/22/tweetstream-ruby-access-to-the-twitter-streaming-api?blog=company#comment-17246226<p>Unless I'm confused, your filter method appears to do a binary AND. So if I follow person 12345 and I'm tracking "hate", I won't get any tweets unless person 12345 says something with 'hate' in it. But what *I* want is an OR: I want all of 12345s tweets, as well as anything with 'hate' ... is this doable with your gem yet?</p>mepattersonWed, 23 Sep 2009 18:24:12 -0000