I made a dumb thing. It makes those memes where you see the Shibu Inu dog's internal monologue, but with parts of tweets.
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posted by mccarty.tim
on Apr 21, 2013 -
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A simple web toy for creating absurdly-crude tweetable pixel art. Warning: squinting may be required.
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posted by malevolent
on Jan 28, 2013 -
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Twitov takes the Twitter history file some lucky folks have been given access to (Twitter says: Rolling it out "slowly" to everyone) and turns it into the brain for a Markov chatterbot. The results are slightly deranged and slightly stupid, but sometimes pretty funny.
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posted by zerolives
on Jan 8, 2013 -
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Metropho.rs is a geographic metaphor map that plots "X is the Y of Z" tweets by putting the "Y" label on the "X" location. Some nice coverage by the Atlantic Cities blog
here.
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posted by creade
on Jan 5, 2013 -
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An easier and better way to ask questions to anyone with a Twitter account. You can leave questions for anyone, and only they can log in using their Twitter account to answer. Questions can be up/downvoted, and have threaded commenting, similar to a Reddit-style AMA session. Questions and answers can be as long as you need and won't get lost in the feed.
posted by lovetragedy
on Nov 29, 2012 -
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Future Earth's surviving bacteria colonizing Heathrow Terminal 5. A superior airport experience. A place to replicate & escape the heat.
So: a parody London Heathrow Twitter account, tweeting from an alternate, slightly less benign universe. Learn about Heathrow's sinister cosmic plans for expansion, upcoming Christmas specials, and the airport's occult connections with Ancient Egypt. Brought to you by that 0430 British Airways flight that swoops low over my house every morning and wakes me up.
posted by Sonny Jim
on Nov 28, 2012 -
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A friend of mine rewrote a Daily Mail parody headline generator (originally in JavaScript) in Python to serve as input to an IRC bot. I rewrote it in Go as a parody Twitter account. It updates 3-4 times daily.
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posted by mkb
on Oct 14, 2012 -
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My interviewing website, called Conversus, is a place where people can tell any story they want. My experience interviewing includes as a radio, television, print reporter and as well as a freelance videographer and writer, and through my work as a public affairs officer. Because I have talked to hundreds of people during my career (maybe thousands), I have a good sense for what motivates people to share, namely asking a simple question and then, listening. I have had many five minute conversations with strangers who's stories could've been made into indie film sagas, only to have them disappear never to be seen again. I think these interactions are the stuff that fuel us and give us empathy for each other.
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posted by CollectiveMind
on Oct 1, 2012 -
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This is a collection of tweets from the roughly 400 attendees over the 4 days of the XOXO Festival in Portland, Oregon.
posted by bertrandom
on Sep 20, 2012 -
3 comments
Collaborative Tweeting. Accept submissions via URLs, and delegate tweeting to other people.
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posted by cellphone
on Sep 16, 2012 -
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Tweetchive is a little web hack I made to show your past tweets in various views. The primary view is a map, there are also views of pictures and text and links. It's not really a finished product, but it's useful enough I launched it.
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posted by Nelson
on Jul 23, 2012 -
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I've put together some of the software I wrote to help me track the Libyan revolution and have pointed it at everything discussing Syria on twitter. It ranks all the news articles, tweets, videos and images discussing twitter as well as the related hashtags and users with the most influence.
You can see the most popular content for the last hour, for the last 24 hour period, or any random day in the last week.
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posted by mulligan
on Jul 14, 2012 -
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I made this tool to help violate Twitter brand guidelines. Enjoy!
posted by bertrandom
on Jun 7, 2012 -
6 comments
Pentametron 2013 (pronounce the year "two thousand and thirteen") scans seven million tweets or so each day, in search of those that happen to be in pentameter - and then it retweets them. It digs up five to ten of these per hour, making a sort of endless sonnet from the vast collective chatter of the Net.
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posted by moonmilk
on Mar 21, 2012 -
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Chinese words like
foot fetish,
Islam, and
march are or were blocked on Sina Weibo, China’s version of Twitter. For two months last year, I used a Ruby script to uncover about a thousand of these blocked words. I've posted some of them on a website I created with short little entries on why they are blocked.
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posted by jng
on Mar 10, 2012 -
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Jotunheim is an iPhone app that lets you post to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, and mlkshk. One at a time or all at once. So, you can keep your people up-to-date, even if they're not all on the same social network.
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posted by ignignokt
on Dec 1, 2011 -
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ThinkUp is a powerful, free, open source PHP/MySQL app that you install on your web server to collect and store all of your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+. It can analyze your activity, lets you search for your data (even past Twitter's search limits!) and is constantly being extended with new features and capabilities by a very active, diverse developer community.
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posted by anildash
on Nov 16, 2011 -
8 comments
A tiny little browser-based app that will create a torrent of rain sound in response to the activity on a twitter search stream. This came out of
Boston Music Hack Day 2011.
This only works in Chrome, or bleeding-edge builds of Safari, due to its use of the brandy new web-audio API, which I didn't know existed until yesterday.
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posted by mkb
on Nov 6, 2011 -
3 comments
It occurred to me that some of the best conversations I’ve had lately revolve around the question - why are you a librarian? I thought it would be fun to collect these stories in a central place so that we’d have a snapshot of all the different reasons people join the information science profession but more importantly, why we’ve stayed in libraries. I’m collecting anecdotes from Twitter (tweet with hash tag #ilibcause), via email (ilibcause@gmail.com) and via a submission form on the website
ilibcause.com/submit. More information available at
ilibcause.com/about.
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posted by ginagina
on Apr 21, 2011 -
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An ad-hoc, location-specific messageboard. Grabs your location and creates a messageboard based on messages sent by the people around you; the more messages there are near you, the more geographically-focused your messageboard is. Hopefully useful as a backchannel for conference talks, protest demonstrations and more. Photos, files, OpenID, ActivityStreams and APIs to come.
posted by bwerdmuller
on Mar 27, 2011 -
5 comments
I made an IRC bot for #mefi on Slashnet. It's written in Python, is multithreaded, has a robust plugin system, and supports interacting with Twitter and Tumblr via plugins.
posted by cellphone
on Feb 11, 2011 -
1 comment
The power of team spirit harnesses the potential of technology to create...THE TWERRIBLE TOWEL!!
Every tweet tagged with #steelersnation twirls the towel one time. Check it out at http://twerribletowel.com
posted by missjenny
on Feb 1, 2011 -
4 comments
Click and click again to generate random new years resolutions for 2011, based on a corpus of tweets collected yesterday and today. Sometimes nonsensical, sometimes absurd, sometimes even plausible. "Be more dedicated to achieve. It avoids disappointment. which means you'll have to be." (potentially NSFW)
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posted by aparrish
on Jan 1, 2011 -
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My friend Cristin Norine is spending one month living in a gallery, alone, that's in plain sight on a busy street in Portland, Or. She can't leave or have visitors, and is only communicating to others via social media.
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posted by blazingunicorn
on Nov 13, 2010 -
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I have no idea how these people got their #mathowielove wedged into their internets.
But I think I know why.
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posted by Alt F4
on Nov 12, 2010 -
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My friends and I released an application that lets you specify just how awesome your Twitter friends are - allowing you award up to 25 AwesomeBucks per day (and deduct 10, if that's your thing). The same site looks great on mobiles as well as computers - if you resize your browser window to a smaller size, you'll see the layout transform into the tablet, then mobile version. I'd love to hear feedback, we have a milestone set for a few weeks out for refinement based on early user feedback. Note - Twitter account required to log in.
posted by thedaniel
on Nov 9, 2010 -
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This was my video presentation for 20x2, a format where 20 people are called to answer a question in 2 minutes or less. This event has been a regular part of SXSW, but last week was the first time they came out to Chicago. I was lucky enough to be one of the participants.
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posted by avoision
on Sep 20, 2010 -
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My wife and I launched this site last week - we've been building it while travelling around Morocco on our honeymoon. Search or browse for conferences (mostly web / technology at the moment, but the site is rapidly growing outside its original niche). Sign in with Twitter and it will tell you about conferences your Twitter friends are attending or speaking at. You're also encouraged to build up your own speaker profile of conferences you have presented at or will be presenting in the future.
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posted by simonw
on Sep 5, 2010 -
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