Calculate the number of tweets in PHP

Question

I want to calculate the number of tweets of the Twitter search and the counter. Like GigaTweet. How can I calculate this using PHP and Twitter API?

Answer 1

There are many PHP documents and libraries to help you with this:

• http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Libraries#PHP
• http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-API-Documentation

As for the specific method, I would use: - http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-Search-API-Method:-search

Example: - http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=twitter

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