Hi,
I’m a newcomer to the Twitter API so I’m hoping that I’ve overlooked something obvious. In case it matter, I’m using the PHP ‘TwitterAPIExchange’ library.
I want to do a bit of basic data mining through Twitter. My specific project is to take user’s following list, count the number of tweets within a given time period and display the results on a graph. At the moment, I think I’m hitting the rate limit as I call statuses/user_timeline once for each person the user is following (eg, I’m following 190 people, and I think the rate limit is 180). Is there any way around this?
My code looks something like this:
$statusTimelineUrl= 'https://api.twitter.com/1.1/statuses/user_timeline.json';
foreach ($users as $currentUser)
{
$getfield = "?user_id=" . $currentUser ['id_str'] . '&trim_user=true&exclude_replies=false&include_rts=true';
$twitter= new TwitterAPIExchange($settings);
$twitter->setGetfield ( $getfield );
$twitter->buildOauth ( $statusTimelineUrl, 'GET' );
$jsonText= $twitter->performRequest();
$tweets= json_decode($jsonText, true);
$count= 0;
foreach ($tweets as $currentTweet)
{
$time= strtotime($currentTweet["created_at"]);
if ($time > $cutoffTimestamp) {
$count++;
}
} // end loop tweets
$tweetCount[$currentUser["screen_name"]]= $count;
} // end loop $users
