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Rate our newb project: Twordsie (your top tweeted words)

10 points by alexmr 16y ago

zazi 16y ago
Should the "top friends" be "top retweeted accounts"? Other than that, it seemed to work, but it did not give me that surprising results though (since I am the person who wrote my tweets). Why the focus on "know thyself"? I would think that the bigger value in this tool would be to discover what top words other people used.
- alexmr 16y ago
  Seems like a good idea. We just started with an easy use case and would want to expand further. Your surprising results might be due to the fact that we only take most recent 200 tweets. We've had trouble with the Twitter API beyond that.
timrobinson 16y ago
Seven out of my ten most tweeted words are other peoples' @names. Since there's already a 'top friends' list, wouldn't it be more useful to keep only actual words in the 'top words' list?
djb_hackernews 16y ago
I built a similarish app a while ago that turned your tweets into a scrabble like game with your friends. It's actually not similar at all beyond word analysis. It got pretty underwhelming reviews but I still think there is opportunity to turn tweeting into games.
Thomaschaaf 16y ago
http://www.twordsie.com/statuspage?user=@thomaschaaf http://www.twordsie.com/statuspage?user=@thomaschaaf does not work gives error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 511, in __call__ handler.get(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/twordsie/1.346586893870275243/main.py", line 55, in get 'rows': [{'c': [{'v': tweet["text"]}]} for tweet in tweets]} TypeError: string indices must be integers
- jrlevine 16y ago
  We keep seeing that error, and are guessing it has to do with the Twitter API. We need to create some better error handling. Thanks for sharing. By the way, just refresh a couple of times and you should see your results.
  - alexmr 16y ago
    I'm also not seeing anything at http://twitter.com/thomaschaaf http://twitter.com/thomaschaaf. Is that a real handle?
Calamitous 16y ago
Nice. :) It doesn't appear to be handling contractions well (getting "ve" and "ll" as top hits instead of "I've" and I'll") Other than that, nice little idea.
neilkod 16y ago
I find it full of awesome that you're sharing the source. Nice work.
MPLaValle 16y ago
Pretty darn cool. Nice work guys.
neilkod 16y ago
How are you managing your twitter API rate limits? Have you been whitelisted?
- jrlevine 16y ago
  Nope, we're just using the standard public API and calling the last 200 tweets. To get at more than 200 we have to use some ugly looping that breaks more often than it works. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline
visural 16y ago
URLs seem to be included too - my top word was "clicky" and that's because I use getclicky.com 's URL shortener - clicky.me

10 points by alexmr 16y ago

zazi 16y ago

Should the "top friends" be "top retweeted accounts"? Other than that, it seemed to work, but it did not give me that surprising results though (since I am the person who wrote my tweets). Why the focus on "know thyself"? I would think that the bigger value in this tool would be to discover what top words other people used.

alexmr 16y ago
Seems like a good idea. We just started with an easy use case and would want to expand further. Your surprising results might be due to the fact that we only take most recent 200 tweets. We've had trouble with the Twitter API beyond that.

timrobinson 16y ago

Seven out of my ten most tweeted words are other peoples' @names. Since there's already a 'top friends' list, wouldn't it be more useful to keep only actual words in the 'top words' list?

djb_hackernews 16y ago

I built a similarish app a while ago that turned your tweets into a scrabble like game with your friends. It's actually not similar at all beyond word analysis. It got pretty underwhelming reviews but I still think there is opportunity to turn tweeting into games.

Thomaschaaf 16y ago

http://www.twordsie.com/statuspage?user=@thomaschaaf http://www.twordsie.com/statuspage?user=@thomaschaaf does not work gives error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/__init__.py", line 511, in __call__ handler.get(*groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/twordsie/1.346586893870275243/main.py", line 55, in get 'rows': [{'c': [{'v': tweet["text"]}]} for tweet in tweets]} TypeError: string indices must be integers

jrlevine 16y ago
We keep seeing that error, and are guessing it has to do with the Twitter API. We need to create some better error handling. Thanks for sharing. By the way, just refresh a couple of times and you should see your results.
- alexmr 16y ago
  I'm also not seeing anything at http://twitter.com/thomaschaaf http://twitter.com/thomaschaaf. Is that a real handle?

Calamitous 16y ago

Nice. :) It doesn't appear to be handling contractions well (getting "ve" and "ll" as top hits instead of "I've" and I'll") Other than that, nice little idea.

neilkod 16y ago

I find it full of awesome that you're sharing the source. Nice work.

MPLaValle 16y ago

Pretty darn cool. Nice work guys.

neilkod 16y ago

How are you managing your twitter API rate limits? Have you been whitelisted?

jrlevine 16y ago
Nope, we're just using the standard public API and calling the last 200 tweets. To get at more than 200 we have to use some ugly looping that breaks more often than it works. http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline http://dev.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/user_timeline

visural 16y ago

URLs seem to be included too - my top word was "clicky" and that's because I use getclicky.com 's URL shortener - clicky.me