Show HN: Get alerts for tweets containing IP addresses in your network

This sounds interesting, but it also sounds like something that requires the full firehose of all tweets unless Twitter&#x27;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, &quot;Why you should never build your product on twitter&#x27;s API.&quot;<p>I&#x27;ve been frustrated on how poor the twitter API is. Just wait until those app keys start suddenly &#x27;expiring&#x27;...

What do you mean by &quot;ip addresses in your network&quot;? Is it the IP address I use to sign up for the service? I can&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x2F;paste&#x2F;click-add&#x2F;rinse&#x2F;repeat-ing for a while.

I&#x27;ve always wondered how promises like this are possible since twitters public API allows only partial access to the stream of tweets?

So you can monitor CIDR ranges? That&#x27;s cool!<p>Can you tell us how it works on the back-end? What other kinds of streams could this be applied to?

Neat. One feedback - when using uorigin adblock adding anything throws a 500

For some reason it wouldn&#x27;t let me add my IP?!?!<p>192.168.0.0&#x2F;24

I mis-read and thought this was a service showing you all the tweets coming from your IP range. This is cool too though!

As a network operator, this might be kinda nifty.<p>I&#x27;ll never know, though, because I&#x27;m not registering &#x2F; signing up just to see what it looks like (and -- in case you&#x27;re thinking of somehow monetizing it -- I&#x27;d certainly never pay for it).<p>For a &quot;Show HN&quot;, there&#x27;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&#x27;m sorry for being a total noob (this is my first post actually), but I&#x27;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&#x27;t find any documentation that clarified it.