Search Twitter tweets by #topic with distinct user

Question

What is a good way to show the most-recent tweets on a #topic by distinct users? For example, if five users have written a combined total of twenty tweets on #example, but one zealot has the fifteen most recent, I want only his latest.

Duplicate-elimination is a plus, because parrots are low value.

Answer 1

There's no way to do this with the Twitter Search API - you'll need to pull down the feed and do your own post-processing on it.