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Panning for Pangrams: The Search for the New Quick Brown Fox
- Steuard 11y agoAs far as I can tell, the upshot after scoring a million tweets is that the only one with all 26 letters was just "?????????????????????the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog??????????????????" This is considerably less interesting than I hoped it would be. (And a little surprising! That's a lot of data.)
- TheRedBarron 11y agoYeah that tweet was a let down. I guess the best resolution is that pangrams (or things with many unique letters) are hard to come by?
- marcelftw 11y agoAt first I thaught "Searching Twitter for a better pangram" was the pangram. I'm stupid.
- bshimmin 11y ago"Searching Twitterdjklquvxyz for a better pangram" works!
- TheRedBarron 11y agohahah I should have thought of that!
- solaris999 11y agoIsn't it a bit silly to throw away every single @<user> tweet? Imagine I'm having a twitter conversation with my friends about who can make the best pangram and this data is ignored just because we're tweeting @ each other? I'm guessing that the majority of tweets will reference a person. How about just stripping that @word from the tweet?
- TheRedBarron 11y agoInteresting. The issue I was getting was that it would like tweets that were "@MyFriendWhoHasAUserNameLikeZXCVBNMQWERTYU hey". Should I just strip it of the word "@____"?
- yathern 11y agoThat would absolutely be the way I'd suggest going about it.
- TheRedBarron 11y agoOkay. Iteration is key! I'll update her maybe tonight. Thanks
- abecedarius 11y agoI'd try stripping such words (and URLs) when they appear at the start or end of the tweet. If in the middle, removing seems likely to mess with the meaning.
- hcrisp 11y agoNot easy to remember, but I recall this phrase appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records for shortest pangram: "Veldt jynx grimps waqf zho buck." More here: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~pdh/string/alphabet.htm http://www.chaos.org.uk/~pdh/string/alphabet.htm
- exarch 11y agoAmazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.