Waiting for more Twitter API calls
May 24th, 2009. Filed under Updates, tagged alpha, api, beta, cache, twitterOkay, so the beta is up and everything seems to be okay, apart from the part where we run out of Twitter API calls per hour. Cache? Yeah, there is cache and right now it’s set to cache similar queries, but they get outdated after 60 seconds. I’ll increase that number to an hour or two, depending on server average load.
For those of you who don’t know the URL of the beta (alpha, or whatever you wanna call it) please contact me on Twitter. I’m @kovshenin. I’ll need your feedback in comments BTW.
Including pingbacks & trackbacks
- You can be the first!
I’m not sure of the colour of the links. Also would it be possible to link instead to the tweets? I had seen one where the occurrences of those words were then links to where the person had written them, not sure why I would want to go to Google right? Could there be a little feature so they can email themselves the info as well?
Looks great till now, can’t wait to see it with colours (graphics) :P..
Good Luck dude ! ;)
Christine, okay I’ll rethink the colour of the links =) And yup, Google Search is temporary at the mo. I’m thinking of linking it to twitter search with @username + some tag. The e-mail thingy you told me about is great! I’m thinking about how it should work right now. Anyways, that’d require registration and Twitter account approval, so not until 2.0 okay? Patience ;)
Enk, thanks buddy, I will =)
Patience nagh, the email thingy – did you find it, cause it just gave them a user email which you put into your twitter settings. Worked well. I’m excited to see it working and used by millions!!
You’d need your Twitter name and password for that thing to work ;) I’ll (hopefully) have 200,000 API calls per hour, so every user should make an API call from HIS account, not ours ;) And not everyone would agree to give out his Twitter username and password, unless you write a really interesting text that would encourage them ;)
Really, I’ll do that ASAP I promise! It’s a very good idea, honest! :)
Really quickly before I go through foller.me more meticulously- On the subject of using Google search (as you said temporarily, have you considered Scoopler? I’ve tried it out a few times and it really does return decent real-time results. It even updates your search result in real-time.
CecilJChen, haven’t heard of that one before. I will definitely consider it, thanks for the suggestion!
Great! Seems to work, K! I’d really love to see it in that beautiful design you showed me before ;)