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(!?).