getting latest tweet and storing it twitter4j

Question

Im new to twitter4j and processing.

I want to get the latest searched word from a list of words. I want this to be stored in the variable which will be queried. so:

PossibleWords[] ={"sad","happy","joyful"}

i would then want a string variable searchString to hold the latest tweeted tweet containing the word from the array. For example, if sad is tweeted just now, i want to get that tweet. So I need to test if any of the words from the array is in the latest tweeted words.

conceptually, I understand this, but any one have any suggestions on programming this? This in processing using twitter4j 3

Answer 1

You should use the Twitter Streaming API, look at the code block that I pasted below:

     private void GetTweetsByKeywords()
     {

        TwitterStream twitterStream = new TwitterStreamFactory(config).getInstance();

                StatusListener statusListener = new StatusListener() {
                    private int count = 0;
                    private long originalTweetId = 0;

                    @Override
                        public void onStatus(Status status) {

                        // Here do whatever you want with the status object that is the       
                         //  tweet you got

                        } //end of the onStatus()
         }; //end of the listener

         FilterQuery fq = new FilterQuery();

         String keywords[] = {"sad","happy","joyful"};

         fq.track(keywords);


         twitterStream.addListener(statusListener);
         twitterStream.filter(fq);
    }