This sounds interesting, but it also sounds like something that requires the full firehose of all tweets unless Twitter's API lets you filter based on regexes. Does Twitter let you get that without some kind of paid plan? Particularly now as they try desperately to find a way to remain viable.<p>Edit: Looking at the options, you could put together a list of a few strings that would match (almost?) any IP address without too many false positives - just getting all 100 combinations of digit.digit would do the trick, and you could do better filtering once you had that smaller stream. The API limit is 400 strings.
I predict a soon to follow Show HN from the same author, "Why you should never build your product on twitter's API."<p>I've been frustrated on how poor the twitter API is. Just wait until those app keys start suddenly 'expiring'...
What do you mean by "ip addresses in your network"? Is it the IP address I use to sign up for the service? I can't seem to specify a range after login, only an email to send the notification to. (an aside: it appears that the notification email can be different than the email I signed up with -- could cause a spam issue)<p>Also, I'd love to specify just a domain to look for, not an ip range.
Suggestion: Please give me a longer text box I can paste a list of CIDRs into. I was copy/paste/click-add/rinse/repeat-ing for a while.
So you can monitor CIDR ranges? That's cool!<p>Can you tell us how it works on the back-end? What other kinds of streams could this be applied to?
As a network operator, this might be kinda nifty.<p>I'll never know, though, because I'm not registering / signing up just to see what it looks like (and -- in case you're thinking of somehow monetizing it -- I'd certainly never pay for it).<p>For a "Show HN", there's really not much to see. I knew as much about it after reading the title as I did after clicking the link. Uh... good luck, I guess.
I'm sorry for being a total noob (this is my first post actually), but I'm not 100% sure what this does.
I enter my IP range and it will alert me if it show up in a twitter post somewhere?<p>Sorry, I couldn't find any documentation that clarified it.