Twitterland

Twitterland is a Ruby gem that bundles various Twitter-related APIs

Including:

• Follow Cost
• Twitter Grader
• Mr. Tweet
• Twinfluence
• Twitter Counter
• TweetBlocker
• Thumbfight
• TweetMeme
• FollerMe
• Zutual
• 140Proof
• Cadmus

Install

 sudo gem install twitterland

Follow Cost Usage

# Get follow cost for specified user
Twitterland::FollowCost.show('bradleyjoyce')

=> <Mash at_reply_index=24.0 average_tweets_per_day=6.87254901960784 average_tweets_per_day_recently=19.6396220282001 golden_index=3.0 milliscobles_all_time=324.02 milliscobles_recently=925.96 political_index=1.0 profile_image_url="http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitter_production/profile_images/179927752/bradley_normal.png" statuses_count=3505 twitter_created_at="2008/03/14 18:26:52 -0700" username="bradleyjoyce">

Twitter Grader Usage

# request your api key at [http://twitter.grader.com/accessrequestform](http://twitter.grader.com/accessrequestform)
# get twitter grade for user
api_key = "OU812"
Twitterland::TwitterGrader.grade('bradleyjoyce', api_key)

=> 98.4183

Mr.Tweet Usage

get your api key at http://api.mrtweet.com/newapi

Initialize Mrtweet

api_key = 'OU812'
mt = Twitterland::Mrtweet.new(api_key,'bradleyjoyce')

Is user

# Check whether the given user is a MrTweet user.
mt.is_user

=> true

Profile

# Returns MrTweet statistics of the given user
mt.profile

=> <Mash conversation=0.225 conversation_percentile=53 frequency=8.98621 frequency_percentile=90 links=0.53 links_percentile=87 recommendations=1>

mt.profile.links

=> 0.53

Recommendations

# Returns the latest recommendations the given user received on MrTweet
mt.recommendations

=> [<Mash date=Thu Aug 06 01:02:54 -0500 2009 name="billtrammel" text="he is an entrepreneur, and one of the developers of TweetCongress.org, award-winning site promoting government transparency. Plus, he's a good friend.">]

mt.recommendations.first.name

=> "billtrammel"

Most attention towards

# Returns the twitter_id's of 3 users that for the given user pays the most attention to
mt.most_attenion_towards

=> [15049040, 17993906, 22286046]

Recommend

# Creates a recommendation from the given user, to another user (aka "friend_name")
reason = "Wynn is an awesome entrepreneur, rubyist, designer and friend! Follow him for his useful and entertaining tweets!"

friend_name = "pengwynn"

mt.recommend(reason,friend_name)

=> true

Twinfluence

Initialize Twinfluence

username = 'bradleyjoyce'
password = 'mypassword'
t = Twitterland::Twinfluence.new(username,password)

=> #<Twitterland::Twinfluence:0x317ecf8 @username="bradleyjoyce", @password="mypassword">

User

# gets twinfluence data for user
t.user('bradleyjoyce')

t.user('bradleyjoyce')

=> <Mash user=<Mash adrider=<Mash script=[<Mash type="text/javascript">, <Mash src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript">]> centralization="24.224443556856" centralization_grade="0.0 Average - Resilient" description="Entrepreneur and Web Developer -- Floxee.com, TweetCongress.org, Sherflock.com, Squeejee.com" followers_count="1315" friends_count="1278" id="14688076" location=nil name="Bradley Joyce" screen_name="bradleyjoyce" second_order="7936664" second_order_grade="Rank: <b>#10,185</b> (93%)" social_capital="6035.4859315589" social_capital_grade="+1.4 High" statuses_count="3511" unix_timestamp="1249683954" url="http://bradleyjoyce.me" velocity="15535.453112211" velocity_grade="+0.1 Fast Average">>

Twitter Counter

Show

tc = Twitterland::TwitterCounter.show('bradleyjoyce')

tc.rank

=> 37194

# available methods
tomorrow_2w 
followers_2w_ago 
followers_yesterday 
followers_current 
friends_current 
next_month 
growth_since_2w  
started_followers 
rank 
user_id 
growth_since 
follow_days 
tomorrow 
next_month_2w 
average_growth 
average_growth_2w

TweetBlocker

User

# get grade for user
result = Twitterland::TweetBlocker.user('bradleyjoyce')

=> <Mash grade="a" score=100 url="http://twitter.com/bradleyjoyce" username="Bradley Joyce">

Spam

# report a user as spammer
Twitterland::TweetBlocker.report_spam('spamtest')

Rate Limit Status

# check your rate limit status
Twitterland::TweetBlocker.rate_limit

=> <Mash hourly_limit=100 remaining_hits=100 reset_time="2009-08-11 23:12:41 UTC" reset_time_in_seconds=2746>

BackTweets

Get your api_key at http://www.backtype.com/developers

Search

# Return tweet referencing a URL
results = Twitterland::BackTweets.search('http://squeejee.com', 'OU812')
results.tweets.size
=> 25
results.tweets.first.from_user
=> "euromarianne"
results.items_per_page
=> 25
results.total_results
=> 3301

Thumbfight

Usage

# Get follow cost for single search term
Twitterland::Thumbfight.fight('apple')
=> <Mash challenger1=<Mash score="3 thumbs up" title="apple">>

# Get follow cost for two search terms
Twitterland::Thumbfight.fight('apple', 'microsoft')
=> <Mash challenger1=<Mash score="3 thumbs up" title="apple"> challenger2=<Mash score="2 thumbs up" title="microsoft">>

TweetMeme

Usage

# Get comments for a given url
details = Twitterland::TweetMeme.url_info('http://tweetcongress.org')

# Get recent comments
comments = Twitterland::TweetMeme::Comments.firehose

# Get popular stories
popular = Twitterland::TweetMeme::Stories.popular

Auto Follow Friday

# get the 10 most recent tweeted-to for #followfriday
Twitterland::Autoff.user('mrspengwynn')
=> ["treefrogstudios", "legalzoom", "pengwynn", "str8photography", "kriscolvin", "focalpop", "ahhphotography", "digitalps", "mully", "curvezilla"]

Zutual

You can compare what topics any two Twitter users have in common:

Twitterland::Zutual.match('pengwynn', 'adamstac')
=> [<Mash strength=87 topic="google">, <Mash strength=87 topic="interview">, <Mash strength=67 topic="google chrome">, <Mash strength=60 topic="sass">, <Mash strength=52 topic="rsync">, <Mash strength=52 topic="rake">, <Mash strength=47 topic="gemcutter">, <Mash strength=45 topic="facebook">, <Mash strength=42 topic="wordpress deployment">, <Mash strength=42 topic="haml">, <Mash strength=42 topic="github">, <Mash strength=35 topic="dallas">, <Mash strength=32 topic="logo">, <Mash strength=32 topic="village church">, <Mash strength=32 topic="css">, <Mash strength=32 topic="mac">, <Mash strength=22 topic="tv">, <Mash strength=22 topic="fix-me">, <Mash strength=22 topic="dns">, <Mash strength=22 topic="lord">]

140 Proof

Usage

Testing ad placement while in development

ad = Twitterland::One40Proof::Test.new

# The Ad
ad.image_url
ad.byline
ad.text

# User
ad.user.screen_name
ad.user.user_id
ad.user.profile_image_url
ad.user.name

# Action URLS
ad.action_urls.click_url
ad.action_urls.favorite_url   # Or ad.action_urls.favourite_url for the English
ad.action_urls.impression_url
ad.action_urls.friendship_url
ad.action_urls.reply_url
ad.action_urls.retweet_url

# Status
ad.status.id

To get an ad for a specific user

ad = Twitterland::One40Proof::UserAd.new(:user_id => 'reddavis', :app_id => 'your app_id')

To get an ad for a specific query

ad = Twitterland::One40Proof::Search.new(:user_id => 'reddavis', :app_id => 'your app_id', :q => 'magic hats')

Cadmus

# get posts in a user's stream including related tweets and comments
posts = Twitterland::Cadmus.posts(:key => 'OU812', :count => 30, :page => 2)

Source

http://github.com/squeejee/twitterland/

Documentation

http://rdoc.info/projects/squeejee/twitterland

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2009 Squeejee. See LICENSE for details.