Question

lets say i need to know how much people are search “something” per minute.

example 123 people is tweeting "something" per minute

is there a way doing this?

Thank you for looking in

Adam Ramadhan

Answer 1

Your best bet will be to use Twitters streaming API. I’ve made a simple PHP wrapper around it (tweetstream, requires PHP 5.3). It’s absolutely not finished but it should give you some ideas.

Using the Streaming API let’s you track tweets containing defined keywords. Just insert those tweets into a database along with the posted time. From there it’s trivial to do your calculations.

Example usage:

$streamer = new TweetStream();
$streamer->setCredentials('your username', 'your password');
$streamer->setCallback(function($message) {
    $message = sprintf('%s says: %s', $message->user->screen_name, $message->text);
    mysql_query('INSERT INTO tweets(message, timestamp) VALUES(.., ..)');
});
$streamer->track('something');