Ruby tweetstream gem

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