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Hello,

We are attempting to implement a ticker with scores and a twitter feed. I've never done anything like it before so I am looking for advice.
What would be the best way to address this? Do I have to have a special software or is there any way I can put something together even if it's not the best approach?

I would really appreciate your advice on how to handle this.

Mildred

First question, where does your data come from ?
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Hi vinz,

Ideally we would to grab a twitter feed by using a hashtag (We are working closely with twitter so I could ask for resources from them). Let's say we didn't though, is there a way to do it or would it have to be manually entered? I think the scores would be manually entered as well unless there's a way to grab data from that I am not aware of.



I guess my main question is, what do I need to get started. Do we need to buy data from someone?



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Please look this : http://www.rossvideo.com/social-media/inception/
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Hi vinz,

I have looked at that and Tick-it but I don't think our managers are looking into buying anymore software right now. I am attempting on doing this through a datalinq/rss feed crawl. I would love any advice you may have.

Mildred


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Twitter is only accessible via it's API (application programming interface), which is why you see so many third party Twitter products on the market. Twitter does this so they can limit the rate at which a a third party uses Twitter's content for free (it's users tweets) - there are other reasons, but that's a major one. That's why all the broadcast character generator vendors have Twitter applications.

So there's no Twitter RSS feed (they eliminated it in 2013 I believe. , unless you use a third party app to get one. Since you can't buy one you have two choices. Make your own Twitter API app, or use a free third party one.

Making your own Twitter API app:
https://dev.twitter.com/overview/documentation

Third party methods:

This is the easiest but it sounds like they have up time issues, and they might limit queries:
http://twitrss.me/ (sorry for the inappropriate language on this page)

Make a RSS feed with a Google script:
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/h...r-prospecting/
http://www.labnol.org/internet/twitter-rss-feed/28149/

I've never tried this Google script so I have no idea if it's safe or works well.
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