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I don’t know much about programming so will be hiring someone to do it for me, but I was wondering what things would you think would be needed to get certain tweets from Twitter-probably using the Search API & then analyse them & link them to other tweets, before then outputting them into a spreadsheet or similar. What I mean is-would it need to be mySQP, RoR, C# etc-as you can see I know very little about that sort of stuff!
Thank you for any answers-very much appreciated!
This is a very general question so I’m afraid I can give only a very general answer.
What you describe can be done in most programming languages. C# or Ruby (you don’t really need the rails part, that’s for building websites) would certainly be good candidates. Java, Python etc. can also do this. There are libraries for accessing the twitter api’s for all these languages. Matching and outputting tweets to a spreadsheet is also fairly language independent as most spreadsheets will read comma separated value files.
MySQL is a database and would not be a good candidate, you can do limited programming with most databases but this is probably not what you want.
I’d look for a good programmer first and then let him/her work in the language of choice. Usually finding good programmers is the hard part.