Ajax Twitter Search

Yesterday, I started grabbing the public_timeline xml file from twitter every 2 minutes and sticking it into a database. Then I hooked up my favorite ajax search script and set it up at http://www.davidsterry.com/tsearch.

What you do is just type in a word or a couple of words and in a second you'll see some recent twitter posts that match. I've always found it frustrating to read the public_timeline to find interesting people to "follow" but this I think is a better way.

I like to search for uses of "code" or "ajax" or "php". My goal being that I'd like to know what the coders of the world are up to. If you find a bug or have a suggestion, feel free to put it in the comments.