Ah, the days of yore when this stuff wasn't already baked into Twitter. Makes you wonder how it became what it is today.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 8:06:00 PM
<Preface> Lets imagine that you can’t actually do all of this directly in Twitter Search like this: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=from:jaketapper+to:senjohnmccain+OR+from:senjohnmccain+to:jaketapper&since=2009-06-16&until=2009-06-16&rpp=50 </Preface> (Now contrived) How To follows: I stumbled upon an impromptu (or so they claim) twitter interview between Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) of ABC and Sen. John McCain (@senjohnmccain). Unfortunately, short of following both of them, it was hard to get a gist of the actual conversation – I tried the Conversation view on Twitter Search, and a couple of other services, like Tweader (appears broken) and Quotably (dead). Twitter Search has an advanced search/allows parameters to specify searching for tweets from one person to another, but that only gives you half a conversation. And as far as I can tell, Twitter search doesn’t allow multiple from:/to: pairs. Enter Yahoo Pipes’ union module: This module merges up to five separate sources of items into a single list of items. Since Twitter Search results can be had in both Atom and RSS flavor, this means we’re good to go: <interlude> …and this is where I discovered that you could indeed do duplex conversation searches in twitter search, so the rest of this will be short… </interlude> See http://pipes.yahoo.com/austegard/twitterconversations; click View Source or Clone to play with it (requires Yahoo id).
posted by Oskar Austegard at 8:29 PM on Jun 16, 2009
"Twitter Conversations: More fun with Yahoo Pipes"
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Ah, the days of yore when this stuff wasn't already baked into Twitter. Makes you wonder how it became what it is today.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013 8:06:00 PM