We think only a record holder can know what you go through to set a record, so we only let people that
have already set world records downvote other people's records.
What can I do?
Go set a record! If you can think of it, you can set a new world record for it.
In terms of tracking, though, the best way I've found is to set up a program hooked into the streaming API of twitter and let it run for 1 hour, counting the times it sees the hashtag. I've used it many times. I'd be willing to clean up the code and post it out here.
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Rob Birdsong
Yup - you are exactly right Roberto, we had the same concerns here. DENIED - sorry Julian. Give it another try following Roberto's method.
Roberto Villegas
In terms of tracking, though, the best way I've found is to set up a program hooked into the streaming API of twitter and let it run for 1 hour, counting the times it sees the hashtag. I've used it many times. I'd be willing to clean up the code and post it out here.
Roberto Villegas
I think you missed the big requirement for this one : count the tweets that say "quack", not the total number of "quacks."
I'm seeing a total of 2 twitter posting, not greater than 869.
Peter Craig
hmmm, cut off the comment; http://bit.ly/aNLQJf
Peter Craig
Google gives a little timeline graph... http://www.google.com/search?q=#quackurdb site:twitter.com
Corey Henderson
How do we know it was exactly one hour? I don't have any reason to suspect the count is wrong - I'm just curious for future attempts.