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Originally Posted by efoote868
Doesn't twitter have it's own API?
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I think so, but it was trivial to parse the RSS, the real benefit of my API is parsing of the special format of
their posts into usable data.
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Originally Posted by Fletch1373
I would also like to add that mine is stored in a mySQL database for future use as twitter's API only allows you to read so many tweets at a time
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That's nifty, although, if I were to do something like that, I would take advantage of
Google Reader's cache to take a load off of our 300Mhz, 3.4GB server
I also think that anyone using mine should set up a cron task to download/cache a copy of the RSS feed every minute or something, as sometimes it is unresponsive, which will throw a PHP error if it can't open.