The title says it all, really. I’m currently running two almost-identical scripts that pull data from the Twitter API every half an hour. The first version of the script runs at :00 and :30 minutes past every hour, and the second version at :05 and :35 minutes past every hour. The on-the-hour/half-hour script fails...
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Tags: api, data, overload, twitter
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That’s quite the mouthful. Let me start with a huge caveat: I’m not an expert on this, and much of it may be incorrect. I studied Bayesian statistics about fifteen years ago in university, but have no recollection of it (that sounds a bit like Bill Clinton: “I experimented with statistics but didn’t inhale...
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Tags: bayesian, classification, learning, n-grams, php, sentiment, stemming, twitter
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At the end of August 2010, all Twitter apps that use Basic Authentication to post/query the API will no longer work. Apps need to migrate to OAuth authentication, but this can be a little tricky. I’ve created something for my particular use-case that you might find useful too. I have a number of automated...
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Tags: api, authenticate, basic authentication, conversion, convert, credentials, migrate, migration, oauth, twitter
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The number of real Twitter followers you have matters. And using borderline-spammy techniques to get those followers works too. I run a blog called Amorphous Blog, which has a Twitter account at @amorphousblog. I spend quite a lot of time researching and writing posts for the blog (often hours at a time), so at the...
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Tags: autofollow, automatic, data, evidence, follow, stats, twitter
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This is my home on the web, but I run (or contribute to) a number of other blogs that you may or may not know about. For the sake of self-promotion, you might want to check these out and subscribe to the RSS feeds! (I’m currently obsessed with FeedBurner stats.) The Januarist (RSS, @thejanuarist)...
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Tags: blogging, blogs, feeds, pimping, rss, selfpromotion, twitter
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I thought it would be kind of fun to create a random graph, using words from Twitter. So! Just head on over to: http://danzambonini.com/randomgraph/ and you’ll see a new random graph every hour (well, if you refresh the page every hour)! Please be warned: I don’t filter for swear words or other potentially nasty...
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Tags: api, charts, graphs, line, pie, random, twitter, words
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I was going to write an introduction about how I don’t think that Twitter follower numbers are particularly important, but how/why I wrote this script anyway. But, to be honest, if you have a practical ethical use for this, that’s all I care about – who cares why I wrote it in the first...
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Tags: automation, followers, php, script, twitter
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