Just a quick post, really. I wrote a little pseudo twitter client that archives hash-trends and allows for post rating and filtering of spammers within different followed trends. click here to see the moootools archive. In this early beta version, I am also archiving various e-commerce trends for the purposes of statistics on trends and twitter applications but soon it… Read more →
I was writing my own re-tweet class and found that I need to crunch URLs on the fly to make them fit within the 140 character limit on Twitter. Come bit.ly and their API, easily accessible via REST and with a JSONP callback interface, just the job for extending Request.JSONP: Request.bitly = new Class({ // shorten urls via bit.ly Extends:… Read more →
Nothing like being egocentric so here’s what you can do to add latest tweets of a particular user to your site through mootools. This class totally forked from a post by AppDen (Scott Kyle) so feel free to give him some love, he deserves it for being such a bright spark. You can also “play” with this live on JSFiddle… Read more →
I needed to get retweet counts as data, as opposed embedding the standard widget that tweetmeme supply. Turning to their API instead got me joy initially. After a stressful few minutes with a javascript label exception was taking place, it transpired that the tweetmeme API was not returning valid JSON within i’s deignated callback wrapper. Instead, it came back as… Read more →
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