Last month, I wrote about Twitterslurp, the twitter searching tool I developed at The Bivings Group, which displays a constantly-updating stream of tweets, as well as a leaderboard and stats graphs.
Today, we are very happy to release it as open source. You can download Twitterslurp from its Google Code project page at http://twitterslurp.googlecode.com/.
Since last month, I’ve made a lot of changes to improve the quality (and ease of configuration) of the Twitterslurp code. Twitterslurp’s error handling has been improved, and I added the ability to start and stop the tweet stream and show more than the most recent 20 tweets. Our graphics team also created a spiffy logo.
Yesterday and today, Twitterslurp has been driving a video wall of tweets at the Personal Democracy Forum conference in NYC. The conference, which just ended, had over 17,000 tweets in the last two days.
Previously, we ran test versions of Twitterslurp during mysqlconf and php|tek, and officially on behalf of the Dutch PHP Conference. Twitterslurp started as a project for a client to allow them to track tweets, and give members of their website rewards for tweeting with a particular hashtag.
We’ve also set up a copy of Twitterslurp tracking itself.
We’d love for you to check out Twitterslurp, and we’re open to any and all feedback.
Tags: JavaScript, open source, PHP, twitter, twitterslurp
