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How did The Voice implement Twitter voting?

13th November 2013

My answer to How did The Voice implement Twitter voting? on Quora

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.

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