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Twitterslurp open source release

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

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.

Tracking php|tek Tweets With Twitterslurp

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

For a client at work a few months ago, I created a Twitter search tool, Twitterslurp, that put all the tweets related to the client’s project on their webpage, updated in (close to) real-time via AJAX.

I’ve since added a lot of features, including a set of graphs, and we’ve set up a version of Twitterslurp for php|tek 2009.
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Aggregate Map Tools, Part 1: GlobalMapTiles

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

My fourth open source release this week comes from work I’ve done for my employer, The Bivings Group. Today, we are releasing a set of code that assists with aggregating markers on a Google Map. Our clients wanted to be able to display markers on a map reflecting the locations of people who provided their location (city, state, zip, and in some cases, street address), but with tens of thousands of expected sign-ups, it’s not feasible to display all the points on the map at once.

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