Tweet fighter is a simple application that takes two terms and compares the popularity on Twitter using the Twitter search API. Tweet fighter is an example of using some of the latest web techniques. This project includes things like:
Asp.net 4.5 Asp.net MVC 4 Microsoft Asp.net SignalR Knockout.js JQuery AutoMapper MongoDB MongoRepository Flot Graphing Bootstrap Minification/Bundling Twitter search api
Feel free to download the source and learn.
One Twitter search API gotcha: You are technically rate limited. If you hit too many the javascript will start throwing errors.