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Ask HN: Review my twitter search app
- marshallk 17y agoit's nice. would be even nicer if there was some way to cache tweets from my friends so I could search history. searching current can be done pretty well with Tweetdeck, I think. Google Reader is archiving a lot of peoples' tweets. See Dave Winer script to access. Nice smooth UI though.
- tjake 17y agothis does search history from the point you create your account :) thx for the feedback.
- dannyr 17y agoI like it. Been looking for an app like this. +1 for the Trends.
- mullr 17y agoIn the video you're talking about what you store, but I don't quite understand. You store my tweets? All my friends' tweets? Why? Can I export them from your system? Delete them later on? What happens when I close my account?
- tjake 17y agoyes we index your tweets so you can search them. if you never come back to the site we stop indexing them. You can revoke access to the app from here http://twitter.com/account/connections http://twitter.com/account/connections We don't yet support full delete of all history, but it's on our list. Also, we are adding support for an api so you can interact with the site/export your history programatically.
- terryjsmith 17y agoI've definitely been looking for something like this. Just wish it had access to further history :)
- tjake 17y agotwitter api limits us to your history, we could resort to scraping perhaps?
- terryjsmith 17y agoThat's what I figured. Scraping might violate the TOS and would require an actual search bot/crawler/parser as opposed to simple API access. I was more complaining about the limits of Twitter in general; I think this is a huge step in the right direction, kudos.
- cabalamat 17y ago> Scraping might violate the TOS If an orgasnisation publishes stuff on web pages, they can hardly object if others choose to access that data!
- Raphael 17y agofriends' OAuth says, "Please come back later."
- Tichy 17y agoSearching just friends should be useful, but I don't understand the requirement to give access to my twitter account. In fact, I ended up not trying it.
- tjake 17y agoThe only way to access your personal twitter stream is via authenticated access, like any other twitter client.
- Tichy 17y agoOnly if my tweets are private, I should think. There are public methods for getting a list of people I follow, and public methods for getting the tweets of any person (except for private tweets). In combination, these two should make my login credentials optional.