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How did The Voice implement Twitter voting?

13th November 2013

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You don’t need full firehouse access to implement this—you can use the statuses/filter API to get a feed of tweets that match a specific hash tag: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api...

That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if Twitter helped out with this project given its scale and high profile nature.

Posted 13th November 2013 at 1:22 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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