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Unleash Your Curiosity


Choose a query for your API call

 

Time to get started! In this challenge, we will be using the Twitter API. The first task in this challenge is simply to identify a query that interests you. You might already have one in mind, or you may need to spend some time and think about one.
 
Perhaps you are passionate about politics or a particular current event. Maybe it's your city or a certain area of science. A sports team? A feeling? A recent news story? For example, try out a twitter search on "toronto," "peer review," "python" or "#hungry". 
 
Click on the links above. Try some of your own queries and skim through the results to see if you're happy with your query.
 
To complete this challenge, post below at least one query that interests you and consistently returns several results. In particular, if you choose something too unusual or esoteric, there might not be any results, and that woudn't be much fun. 
 
Beyond having enough results, what makes a good query? How about a bad query? Some things to think about include how specific or general a query is, how time-sensitive, possible synonyms, overloading of hash tags, etc.

Task Discussion


  • cef theleft said:

    https://twitter.com/search?q=metalcore

    on March 27, 2016, 7:27 p.m.
  • Anonym said:

    on Nov. 4, 2015, 7:29 p.m.
  • Jad El Omeiri said:

    https://twitter.com/search?q=%23apache+%23ofbiz

    on March 9, 2015, 7:48 p.m.
  • Ragamel Martinez said:

    #Venezuela

    on Jan. 27, 2015, 5:11 p.m.
  • Tmac10 said:

    Chevy Silverado

    on Jan. 14, 2015, 5:29 p.m.
  • AssembleReality said:

    #programming

    on Jan. 3, 2015, 8:36 p.m.
  • Sanath sekhar Reddy Nallareddi said:

     

     

    Hi

     

    My searches 

    #FriendshipDay,

    #Bigdata,

    #today, #Narendra Modi, #twitter

     

    Cheers

    Sanath

     

     

    on Aug. 3, 2014, 10:21 a.m.
  • Sanath sekhar Reddy Nallareddi said:

     

     

    Hi

     

    My searches 

    #FriendshipDay,

    #Bigdata,

    #today, #Narendra Modi, #twitter

     

    Cheers

    Sanath

     

     

     

    on Aug. 3, 2014, 10:19 a.m.
  • jackson said:

    My queries are "#code", "#javascript", "trending", "hashtags"

    on June 26, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
  • Una said:

    I want to be able to track trending topics and hashtags, so for this exercise I'll use a favourite search - #ddj  https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23ddj&src=typd

    on June 18, 2014, 3:40 p.m.
  • Ubuntourist said:

    As you may have guessed from the username, I'm interested in the Ubuntu distribution of Linux.

    on June 15, 2014, 6:59 p.m.
  • Sean R. Benjamin Jr. said:

    Queries: java, ruby, virgin islands

    on May 13, 2014, 5:08 p.m.
  • Raya Tarannum said:

    I searcged for Egypt, Italy and Programming

    on March 13, 2014, 6:14 a.m.
  • sash said:

    I searched for : #lovekoreandrama, Recommendation Systems and Harry Potter. The results were fascinating !

    on Feb. 23, 2014, 3:16 a.m.
  • Allison said:

    on Jan. 15, 2014, 6:54 p.m.
  • kellym22 said:

    I searched Montreal, music, climbing (for rock climbing), and French

    There were a few results for each search. Some good results and some personal posts for Montreal, a few decents results for music, a surprising main picture showed up in one of the top results for climbing, and when searching French there were results for France. I might suggest to search with tmore than one word when looking for something like rock climbing for example. 

    on Jan. 12, 2014, 10:21 p.m.
  • Anonym said:

    well this queery describes my situation...

     

    https://twitter.com/search?q=%23sleepy&src=tyah

    on Jan. 1, 2014, 1:51 a.m.
  • bigdipperart said:

    I searched for #SaveShenmue https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SaveShenmue&src=hash&f=realtime

    on Dec. 21, 2013, 10:54 a.m.
  • Ar said:

    HTML5 & sushi

    on Nov. 27, 2013, 8:34 a.m.