Canabalt, a ridiculously addicting web/IOS-device game allows one to show off their high scores, and their not-so-high scores to Twitter. Each of these tweets contains a bit of information – The score represented in meters, the method of death (hitting a wall and tumbling to my death) and the device (iPhone). Other useful information can [...]
edit: March 17, 2011 I need your help! If you have additional Seinfeld quotes to contribute, or for a list of all of the current Seinfeld quotes, please visit this post. My current army of twitter bots and the keyword that each one responds to: @HelloooooNewman (seinfeld) Klout score 74 @TheBotLebowski (lebowski) Klout score 70 [...]
After removing a few stopwords and then clearing out a few other words(nowplaying, lastfm, and the like), here’s what’s left. The data represents a half-day’s worth of tweets. I’m sitting on about 90,000 tweets about Kanye and am looking forward to taking the time for some more in-depth analysis. Huge thanks to @jrlevine and [...]
Through the magic of hadoop, pig, over 300 million(and counting) tweets, and the never-ending creativity of my fellow twitter users, I thought I’d take a look at all of the hashtags containing the beloved f-word. Lets get the technical details out of the way. Since the middle of June, I’ve been saving as many tweets [...]
Using twitter gardenhose access, remove stopwords and punctuation sprinkle in a little bit of mapping, some reducing, and voila! The most frequently-occurring words in tweets that mentioned earthquake from June 23, 2010. I left earthquake out of the image itself because being that it was in every tweet, it overwhelmed the rest of the words. [...]
My cousin @joelkodner (private stream, follow to view) is closing in on 20,000 tweets. Pretty impressive considering he joined not too long ago. That amounts to about 300 a day(!?). Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
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