# twitterland

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

Including:

* Follow Cost
* Twitter Grader
* Mr. Tweet
* Twinfluence 
* Twitter Counter
* TweetBlocker
* Thumbfight

### 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](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](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">>
    
### Source
[http://github.com/squeejee/twitterland/](http://github.com/squeejee/twitterland/)

### Documentation
[http://rdoc.info/projects/squeejee/twitterland](http://rdoc.info/projects/squeejee/twitterland)

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