live twitter feed to screen

[Ryan Cornelius]

Hi Guys,
I am trying to put a twitter feed up on screen along with out
regular walking slides and videos for walking on out next tour. Has
anyone tried this? Does any know if I can output another program to a
portion of the screen, or do i need to bring it in from another
computer at a live cam cue?
Let me what you guys think.
Ryan

[danner danner]

http://b-l-a-c-k-o-p.com/GrabberRaster.html

might be what you need ... it should show up to Qlab as a camera input / video source ... 

not sure how much support is included for the newer mac os iterations. has anybody used 

grabberraster lately ?? i haven't. 

also .. a philosophical point .. i personally would hesitate to project "live" webpages 

such as twitter in the best-interests of making sure the show is -clean- and um, censored. 

...... sometimes unexpected things can happen; depends on the nature of your audience. 

at that point, i'd be doing some screen caps (stills or video) of the needed "live" sites so 

that the supposed "live" feed is more-or-less controlled. the audience doesn't know what they want 

and they will never know the difference if you decide for them. show biz. ahem. ok i'm done. 

also if the internet connection goes sour, the projections // concept are not compromised. 

please let us know what you finally decide -- i'm curious. thanks. 

Ryan

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[Ryan Cornelius]

Thanks for the lead. We are still sorting out the live feed issues.
There is some software out there that will do the feed with built in
and custom filtering but so far it is all pc.

[Steven Sokulski]

I've played with it in the past and built some prototypes. With
changes to Twitter's RSS feeds they don't work any longer, but could
likely be dusted off at some point.

The answer I found was to utilize a simple web app that scrapes a
designated Twitter feed (could be a user's feed, a list's feed, a
hastag, etc.) and displays that to a technician. The tech can then
approve content as they go, creating a new, private list of curated
messages. The option to manually modify a tweet could be added ,
too. For example, replace a curse word with @%#$ to be able to use
some bluer messages.

On the display side, I had leveraged QuartzComposer to create a
composition that would go and get that data feed that my web app was
cooking up and display it in a visually pleasing fashion.

Depending on the strength of your system, the web app could run on
your operator's display while the Quartz data is being fed into Qlab.
Of course, you ARE inviting the internet into your production
environment. Always dicey.

[Douglas Heriot]

I've been tempted to build a simple Mac app for loading Twitter feeds,
and filtering messages to be displayed via an appropriate presentable
Quartz Composer composition, but never got around to it. Sounds like
it would be handy to have…

[Sander Loonen]

there are a few examples around with quartz composer.
you might be able to integrate that into your show.

sander

[dhwright]

This sounds exactly like what I'm trying to do. Any progress on this?
What hardware/software did you end up going with? I do have a PC I can
run the twitter feed on, but no idea how to input a video signal from
that into QLab.

[Ryan Cornelius]

Still Working on it....
the pc app is called firetext but I have yet to find a good way that I
am happy with to get it into qlab.....all of the firewire video inputs
I can find are composite in and i am worried about image quality.
At the moment i am talking with a company called mass relevance, they
can analyze all of the tweets in real time and output a filtered rss
or xml. I will let you know what I come up with.