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James Robertson

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Plugging Away at the Twitter Interface Posted: Nov 14, 2009 10:34 AM
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I finally had some time to take a look at the Twitter interface again, and I just got the search/trending topics interfaces hooked up. I think I've created a pretty nice little API at the Smalltalk level; here's how to pull the trending topics for the week starting 8 days ago, for instance:


parms := TrendTopicsArgs new.
parms date: (Date today subtractDays: 8).
parms exclude: true.
trendingTopics := model getWeeklyTrends: parms.

Keeping in mind that I'm working at the interface (not UI) level here, here's what comes back for that:

After drilling down to one of the trending topics:

I'm pretty happy with the way the interface is shaping up. If you want to have a look, grab the Twitter package (not bundle) from the Public Store.

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