Twitter SPY new web app

[michelem]

Hi,
I made a new web app called Twitter SPY. It displays the public
timeline in real time like the Digg Spy page.
Hope you like it.

http://twitspy.com

[Geoff Barnes]

Very interesting.  It's the best shot I've seen at reasonable digestion of the public timeline.  Nice work.
Pause and play confuse me as UI elements because they look like content tabs rather than pause/play buttons.  Would it depart too much from the twitter look/feel to style those as more conventional pause and play buttons?
Again, great work!

Geoff

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[Geoff Barnes]

Uh oh.  Posted.  4 minutes later, nothing on twitspy.  Is there a big lag?

[michelem]

Thank you very much for your feedback, I know the Play/Pause button
aren't so "user-friendly" but this is only a preview I have a lot of
ideas in my mind.
Did you notice some other problems/issues?
Thanks again

Michele


On Apr 15, 3:43 pm, "Geoff Barnes" <geoffrey.m.bar...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Very interesting.  It's the best shot I've seen at reasonable digestion of
> the public timeline.  Nice work.
> Pause and play confuse me as UI elements because they look like content tabs
> rather than pause/play buttons.  Would it depart too much from the twitter
> look/feel to style those as more conventional pause and play buttons?
> Again, great work!
>
> Geoff
>

[Geoff Barnes]

Well, I sent some tweets from twhirl and watched twitspy expecting to see them appear very shortly thereafter.  After 4 minutes of watching, still nothing.  I was wondering if there's some built-in latency.

[michelem]

I noticed twitter public timeline doesn't display every tweets may be
someone here in the discussion group could explain us why.

Michele


On Apr 15, 3:57 pm, "Geoff Barnes" <geoffrey.m.bar...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Andrew Badera]

The public timeline only updates every 4 minutes or so I believe.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:12 AM, michelem <miche...@gmail.com> wrote:

I noticed twitter public timeline doesn't display every tweets may be
someone here in the discussion group could explain us why.

Michele

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[Nathan Rixham]

if your using the standard API (and not xmpp public timeline) then it
would be worth noting that:

a: the sinceid / since time parameters don't work (nor does the
"if-modified-since" header)
b: it's impossible to poll it often enough to get all twitters, I assume
there's some sort of 2/3 second cache in there.

I could stand corrected, thats just what I've found. (it's worth
remembering there are approx 300/400 twitters a minute, so if you don't
see 5+ a second updating somethings wrong)

Many Regards

Nathan

[nath]

re: The public timeline only updates every 4 minutes or so I believe.

go to public timeline, wait 5 seconds, refresh it's changed.

[Alex Popescu]

A couple of comments:

1/ read the document Alex has published about the PubSub support [1].
You'll find there details about what messages are available in through
the XMPP protocol.

2/ I may sound a bit harsh, but this functionality is already offered
by Twitter itself (indeed with a different look and feel), so I find
it a bit weird to use their source (and by the way this XMPP support
is offered as a non-guaranteed service and as a sign of their open
env) in order to provide a similar functionality. But that's only my
opinion :-).

cheers,

./alex
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[1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/jabber-pubsub

[xxdesmus]

I doubt this is possible, but it would be great to have an option to
only "spy" on a particular language. For example, I'd much rather just
watch English speaking users if at all possible.

Thank you, keep up the great work!

Justin

[Nathan Rixham]

Justin,

I've made a little something for that, soon as I finish my paid work
I'll be getting it finished up - will update the board when it's done
(eta 2 weeks)

Nathan