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Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time
Check out the Twitter activity in realtime
This project is based on Nodejs w/ Socket.io, Processing.js and Backbone.js
Designed and realized by Franck Ernewein.
- nhebb 14y agoCurious about the CPU usage of canvas apps on older systems, I ran this in FF and Chrome. (I'd classify the system I'm on at the moment as a mid-tier business PC from 2008.) FF maintained a CPU usage mostly in the 33-40% range and Chrome in the 18-23% range. CPU usage would spike up to 75-90% in FF, whereas the largest spike in Chrome was only 40%. It's just one data point, but I was impressed with how much more efficient Chrome was than FF.
- pzeups 14y agoThat's true! http://blog.lightjs.org/2013/01/svg-canvas-divs/ http://blog.lightjs.org/2013/01/svg-canvas-divs/ Chrome is 62% faster than Firefox, Safari 85% and IE10 67%
- ChuckMcM 14y agoThat is fun. A bit scary, but fun.
- olog-hai 14y agoA pause button would be nice. Also, parts of Australia light up with activity on the map, but strangely it isn't listed on the dashboard.
- kodablah 14y agoI believe the regions are defined as the blocks that become visible when you hover over the content title. The Asia one doesn't include Australia.
- pzeups 14y agoIt's only on geolocated tweets ! Awesome.
- pax 14y agothat means the less popular locations get even less exposure, as there are plenty of places in the less developed world of which Twitter location (desktop) is unaware of.
- jdelsman 14y agoIs it just me, or is it ironic that this site is currently unavailable?
- dangrossman 14y agoIt's just you. What does visualizing tweets have to do with high availability?
- madmaze 14y agowould be nice to have a website for "tweetping traffic in real time(as it gets hit by HN)"
- pzeups 14y agothe author is working on it, more you are, more he will improve perf.
- esornoso 14y agonice work.
- tibbon 14y agoHow are they getting the data? Twitter's APIs seem so limited these days.
- FranckErnewein 14y agoData come from the Twitter Streaming API https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis
- jevinskie 14y agoIs the site getting the firehose stream though? How do you get that level of access?
- huskyr 14y agoThey're probably using the 'sample' firehose, which is not protected and still serves a few tweets per second.
- tariqr 14y agothat looks like a lot more data than a few tweets per second though.
- lucaspiller 14y agoThe free version gives access to 1% [1] of all tweets, which seems about right for this. [1] https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/2752 https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/2752
- mmahemoff 14y agoIt struck me seeing this how rare it is now to see any kind of Twitter experiment. Complete 180 from a few years back.
- mochizuki 14y agoThere's so much potential information there, and some very neat things you can do with it. But for me at least, their new API policies completely turned me off of making cool things with it. Not that the API isn't still powerful.
- ninetax 14y agoThis is pretty awesome, but I would like to be able to dig in deeper. After looking at it for a couple minutes, there's really nothing more I can do.
- eltaco 14y agoI made a project that is similar - shows a bit more information except its only for the US and you need to search a specific word/hashtag. http://tweetpleth.herokuapp.com/ http://tweetpleth.herokuapp.com/
- lampe 14y agonice work! iam love twitter and right now iam watching a show called #domian and iam looking for that hashtag and there are per minute about 30 tweets and i dont see them on your site. iam from germany. or did i just overlooked something?
- chewxy 14y agoThis was really cool. The office is having internet connectivity problems right now, and after we fixed it, this page loaded, and for a brief moment, I felt like a hacker from the movies :D
- bhauer 14y agoVery cool! Mind providing some background on how you've rendered the world map and determine tweet coordinates? Are you mapping the tweets' latitude and longitude through some projection formula?
- incision 14y agoI'm surprised at the amount of traffic coming from Indonesia. Can anyone offer some insight?
- pax 14y agoIndonesia has 4th biggest population in the world. Also, 6th most active country on Twitter (2010).
- wasd 14y agoIncredibly well done and excellent execution. However, there is a noticeable delay/lag that totally took me out of the user experience. Even though the concept was really cool, I wouldn't mind if everything was slowed down a bit so I get what's actually going on and there was a bit less lag.
- necenzurat 14y agowhat? no link to the github repo?
- zobzu 14y agoI just realized that they don't have twitter in Australia!! ;)
- simontaotw 14y agoI think europa should be europe, for correctness's sake
- jusben1369 14y agoNice. I like trendsmap as well. www.trendsmap.com
- meanJim 14y agoSites Down - I'm upset I was trying to show this around.
- pzeups 14y agoback soon.
- pzeups 14y agowill be back soon.
- shellehs 14y agoAre you sure? the webpage showed me these: ---- The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: http://tweetping.net/ http://tweetping.net/ Connection to 91.121.175.82 failed. The system returned: (111) Connection refused The remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again. Your cache administrator is webmaster.
- pzeups 14y agoit's back!