[randomwalker]

This showed up: "Homemade migas this morning; cold brewed coffee & client work the rest of the day"

How about you match only if at least two words are weather-related? Or at least 1 weather related + 1 location related, like "cold in new york."

[aviel]

Thanks! Yea it's definitely imperfect, but I'm limited by the functionality of the twitter search api, what i have been doing and what I can improve on is filtering out of common terms that involve weather related words, so for instance "ice cream", or in your case "cold brewed", which I am about to add to the exclusion list. granted this whole app has only about 15 hours of dev in it, so such a list is going to be FAR from perfect.

[randomwalker]

Ok. BTW, why are you using the twitter search API instead of Gnip?

[aviel]

I definitely plan on switching to gnip. As i said, tweetweather is just something I put together after work the past week, grabbing from the search api was the quick and easy solution to getting tweets into the system.

Gnip rocks.

[ryanwaggoner]

Can you explain how you'd use Gnip in this instance? From reading the API docs, it doesn't sound like you can do anything with Gnip + Twitter other than get tweets from / to a particular Twitter user. So you can't get keyword-filtered results from the public timeline, I don't think. Am I missing it?

[aviel]

You're 100% correct. But I'm hoping they'll add the ability to use filters on the whole firehose in the near future.

[iamdave]

I concur. There is definitely some room for improvement on the word filtering.

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Otherwise, I think this is an awesome idea. Keep it up.