retrieve public info from twitter throug api

can anyone give me an example of how to retrieve twitter public information, not related to an account, let say, with PHP or javascript开发者_运维百科 or Net???

I know there is a Twitter API & I'm looking at it to get familiarized with, but I need an example quickly, let say for tomorrow, on how to retrieve public/not-account-related info about twitter posts. In example, would I be able to do something like:

var twitter = new Twitter();

var theWord = "tsunami";

var select = " SELECT PostUser, PostDate, PostSubject";

var from = " FROM PublicTwitts";

var where = " WHERE Subject/Content LIKE '%" + theWord + "%'";

var query = select + from + where;

var culture = "spanish";

twitter.getJSON(query, spanish);

Is that possible???

I would be happy with the closest example, while I continue digging into the API.

Thanks in advance.

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You will want to use the Search API.