Twitterverse

Hello Twitterers. You may have noticed some funky stuff in the last few days with our hour views (sorry about that) but no worries, they’re better now!  We’ve switched over to the Twitter XML feed so we can import more comprehensive data.  Thanks to uber-coding over the last few days by Max and Andrew Weaver, tweets having been pouring into the new database as of earlier tonight.

You’ll also notice that on the individual word pages for each time view (eg. 5 hour view of “coffee”), we’re now displaying user photos and location. Yay!  The time views are also filtering @username and display names so the word cloud is much more accurate in terms of content.  This makes Twitterverse a great way to discover new people based on the content of their tweets.  Hope you enjoy.

PS - Yesterday’s view won’t be updated until tomorrow when there’s enough data and we can timeshift.  We’ll be updating the search feature as well.  That’s next up.

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