elliottkember

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   by elliottkember 18y ago

   Yeah, that's fair enough - I wouldn't call it an app either, and I made it. There's a rails app in there, but it's only generating a page. Rails made the generation process much easier, though :)
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   by elliottkember 18y ago

   Oh, I meant in general, it works in the same way. A cron job handles the pulling, and putting the tweets into the SQLite file - but with Rails, instead of just Ruby. I was trying to say that Rails just sits on the cron job and made it easie
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   by elliottkember 18y ago

   Oh, hey - I remember Twistori from when it first came out :) Great app, really like it. Twhoops works the same way - it's just that using Rails made a couple of things easier for me. It's not really an app at all - but if I did ever want to
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   by elliottkember 18y ago

   Yeah, that's one - there's actually two APIs going on here. One's the search.twitter.com API, and one's the official Twitter API. The search API is used for finding them, and the Twitter API is used to fetch profile images and follower coun
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   by elliottkember 18y ago

   yeah, the design and CSS tweaking took a lot of the time. I hadn't done any Twitter / search.twitter API stuff in Rails before either so it took some time to find the best way of doing things. Plus, I was watching a couple of movies - that
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   by elliottkember 18y ago

   nice work! Can you get it to load in avatars, too?
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   by elliottkember 18y ago

   Hey, I built this :) - thanks danw. Edit: moved @replies around.