Access to the Twitter streaming API
notes
This gem looks to be a possible solution for connecting Max to Google Maps. I’m guessing that the code will look very similar to the ruby code which uses the twitter gem for status updates.
https://github.com/tweetstream/tweetstream
Here’s a blog entry:
http://thechangelog.com/tweetstream-easily-access-the-twitter-streaming-api/
Client documentation:
http://rdoc.info/github/intridea/tweetstream/TweetStream/Client
Here’s the Twitter documentation on whats getting returned:
https://dev.twitter.com/docs/platform-objects/tweets