I would like to track the trending topics on twitter over a period of time, I am assuming from my knowledge the best way to do this would be through a crawler, does anyone know of any existing code available or can make some recommendations as to how best to go about this?
You should probably start here
http://dev.twitter.com/rest/reference/get/trends/place
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I'm looking to find Twitter outage data, a dataset that can tell you when, where, and for how long Twitter becomes offline or difficult to use/access. Does Twitter make this information available somewhere, maybe through its APIs?
Thanks!
No, there is no Twitter API for that. I suspect you could use something like Down Detector but I don’t know what historical data it has available (and we are in the realms of recommending software, which is off topic for Stack Overflow)
In my app so far, I have to implement all the Twitter posts from a certain individual into a table view, and it automatically updates when the person tweets a certain post. Is it possible to mention a certain individual e.g. #John.. If it is possible, how can I do it? If not just let me know and I will delete this question as it could be too ambitious. Thanks!
I don't quite understand what you mean. I do a little!
There is a quick and easy way of doing this! One easy way is to use Twitters own SDK called Fabric. See Here
See this link for the timeline stuff and integration to your app Documentation
This should help you out!
P.S. Let me know how you get on!
I was reading a thread last year about cms softwares that are used for making social sites... and basically someone said it takes less time to do something with a certain cms and the response was you could make a whole twitter in seconds using so-and-so framework, that doesn't mean its best overall. I surly bookmarked that so-and-so website and were planing to test it. but its not anywhere in my bookmarks and searching in google didn't help. does anyone know what that cms/framework for creating twitter-like websites?
Thanks alot.
I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but take a look at http://openmicroblogger.org/.
You can take a look at other possibilities, as told in here: http://socialcmsbuzz.com/ever-wanted-to-start-your-own-twitter-clone-now-you-can-02122008/.
Hope this helps,
I would like to integrate in my web site a flights search engine. I am wondering how can i do this. Who sells this kind of service? or there is an elegant and easy way to this?
ps: of course i need the possibility to books the flights.
FlightStats has an API that may serve your purposes, depending on your use case.
(If you want to do bookings and such it won't help you there, but it will show you flights for the next several days, as well as data for flights in the air).
If you need information for bookings, you're pretty much stuck going to Sabre.
I am trying to find a way to track and produce reports for my site (out of interest). Does anyone know of any articles/projects etc that you can
Track pages / unique visitors etc
Tracking 1) relative to timestamp etc
in asp.net mvc or just asp.net ?
P.S - I know google analytics etc is available but looking to create some basic stats for myself out of interest about how web analytics work ?
There are a couple of good ways to try and determine unique visitors, none of them are exact (which is why different analytics will report different numbers).
The first is to use a cookie. Create a cookie for the user for each time frame that you want to track uniques, so you could create one that expires in a day and one that expires in a month. You can then use both of those to track how many unique daily/monthly visitors you have. Of course this is not perfect since people can clear or refuse cookies, but it is pretty accurate.
The other way is to track uniques using a combination of the IP address and User Agent of the requesting user, this is probably slightly less accurate since if a company has a good IT group lots of internal users will have the same User Agent and since they are all coming from the same internal network could have the same IP address.
If you are interested in reading more about the different methods there is a great article about it here: http://www.google.com/support/urchin45/bin/answer.py?answer=28325
I blogged about simple asp.net module.
You can check it here
http://ilkeraksu.com/post/2009/07/14/Very-very-simple-But-very-very-efficient-Aspnet-Tracking-module.aspx
I would recommend using google analytics instead of reinventing the wheel. All you have to do is stick a bit of javascript in your master page and your done.
Yo can check Piwik out. Its an open source web analytics written using PHP and mysql.
you can find great article in http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/PageTracking.aspx
which is upgraded version of http://www.15seconds.com/Issue/021119.htm
with help of a Session Tracker class that runs in Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute and mailing reports on session end and lot of usefull tips
thanks Wayne Plourde for all that stuff