Monitor and count hashtags and mentions

BeerUpBlog · 2016-03-15T03:46:43.410Z

I am brand new to this and what I am trying to do is run a promotion with a hashtag where I follow the hashtag and when people mention certain keywords, a tally is created and shown so users can see the results live

andypiper · 2016-03-15T10:24:02.206Z

Use the Streaming API with a filter track keyword matching your hashtag / keywords. Then in your code, count the Tweets as they come in.

BeerUpBlog · 2016-03-16T14:45:22.816Z

thank you so much…I apologize for my ignorance as I am brand new to this. When you say in my code, count the tweets as they come in, how do I do that and where would the counts show up? If you could provide me a snippet I can probably modify it.

for instance.

Let’s say I am tracking #craftbeer

and I want to count mentions of sierra nevada , lagunitas , Ballast Point and IPA but does not double count if they use a brewer and IPA in the same tweet

I would like a counter that tallies the mentions… could you send me a snippet that does that and then I can modify from there?

SocialOpinions · 2016-05-13T10:28:40.163Z

Hi,

I can save you doing some of the work as I’ve actually built what you’re talking about!

I’d love your feedback, just login with your existing Twitter account, create your Campaign and go!

You can check out the tool (in beta) here: www.socialopinion.co.uk

If you have any questions then let me know.

Regards.

joaoarau · 2016-09-11T19:31:34.609Z

@SocialOpinions, what about the 1% limit rule, does it apply to your solution? Is there a solution that can capture all tweets, provided that traffic volume is low?

I guess my question is related to the problem reported in this topic:

Streaming API Tweet Missing with < 1% Streaming APIs

Hi, I am using streaming API to get ALL tweets which has mention to "@UserA" (UserA is self, not some third person). The number of tweets with mention to UserA is clearly < 1% of all tweets twitter receive. When I use Filter Stream, I notice that some of the tweets are not getting received by my steam processor. I am not exceeding the rate limit. Not receiving some tweets, Is this expected? If so, I will have to fallback to REST APIs, I suppose. If this is not expected? What could possible be …

SocialOpinions · 2016-09-11T19:56:03.769Z

Hi @joaoarau,

The 1% limit does get applied at the minute during these early stages, I have a windows service that I throttle to ensure we don’t breach rate limits as well. Shortly I will be looking to get access to the entire firehose via gnip though.

Cheers.