I’m just trying to use a keyword to search either recent tweets or users’ bios for relevant users. I’m confused about the OAuth part though. It seems like OAuth and twitter applications are for letting someone log into your site using twitter, and give you permission to do twitter stuff on their behalf.
I don’t want other people to log in, I just want to search twitter for myself. Do I have to set up an application, then use OAuth to log in as myself everytime before I make a search request? I feel like I’m doing something wrong!?
No need for an application if you want to search Twitter. Just use the Search API:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=stackoverflow