I am really not too familiar with Google Alerts, but doesn't Google Alerts encompass this?
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Google alerts is pretty far from real-time and their coverage is spotty at best.
I don't think it allows you to filter the source of the comment. Personally I can't fathom what role Twilio is serving in this mix. Just use the API.
Even if Twilio were simply providing a proxy for accessing the Google Alerts API, I would use Twilio's proxy over Google's.
Twilio consistently provides excellent documentation and developer support, whereas Google's results on that front are very mixed (varies widely by product).
That's a bit of a stretch. You wouldn't get better results than using Google's APIs, if anything you introduced another failure point and authentication credentials that you need to track and update regularly.
You don't need to use Google at all. This would be a 20-minute project using the HN API.
Twilio is a whole extra level of cruft. Any machine can send an email, so unless you want a voice call to tell you someone mentioned you on HN it makes absolutely no sense.
The new HN API? Which one do you mean? Please post the link.