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Ask HN: How to get started with making a twitter app?
I want to make an app that scans twitter for content, even based on their search. How do I go about that? I am a designer so I don't have much experience with engineering but I'm willing to learn I just don't know where to start.
If anyone is a programmer that has the time and wants to partner with me, hit me an email. I'm excited about the idea but I could really use help with executing it. It involves connecting people that express things with people that can provide solutions to them.
- chaosprophet 17y agoIn essence your trying to build a talent marketplace using twitter??? Something like an elance on twitter??? Sounds like an idea worth trying out. I havent worked with the twitter API yet, but I guess you should read through the API documentation first. That should give you a foot in the door.
- kamme 17y agoIt depends on how you want to work, user based or just in general. You can get all tweets from a specific person (this would be handy for a website where you sign up for) with a certain keyword, or just get them all and scan server side. On the other hand, you can for example scan for popular developers hashtags (like #ruby, #php, #linux, etc) or just request recent tweets and scan for what you need. These 2 solutions would be perfect for a general scan. I'm currently working with the twitter api for a small personal project and it's pretty flexible, you have quite a lot of possibilities...