Zombietweets screensaver

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Loktar(Posted 2009) [#1]
Wanted to mess with the twitter API so I made this site http://www.zombietweets.com but then I found myself staring at the screen reading all of the comments, that gave me the idea to convert one of my older screen savers into a twitter based one. Only spent about two hours doing the conversion so there may be a few small bugs.

Screen shot


Download
http://www.zombietweets.com/zombietweets%20setup.exe

This is definitely the first of many twitter apps Ill be making. Im imagining the many different ways of using blitz to visual data. Anyway let me know what you think. Also for the heck of it I'll be posing the code to read from twitter in the archives. Its really simple but might help somebody.


Nate the Great(Posted 2009) [#2]
ooo pretty cool

how exactly does twitter work though? I never quite understood it.


Loktar(Posted 2009) [#3]
its basically a blogging platform consisting of 140 character posts. So you can type your random thoughts, links of interest, ect. Also via the API you can have other things "tweet" one such example is a device that monitors the water levels of plants and tweets its current levels, when it needs water, temperature ect. The main draw to it in my opinion is the mass amounts of free search able data. You can find current trends, and growing trends through it.


Nate the Great(Posted 2009) [#4]
Oh I see. I knew it was a blog but I had no idea it could be used for that. So does your screensaver "tweet" info to twitter?


Loktar(Posted 2009) [#5]
no, just pulls info currently. Thinking of new ideas though on different visualizations i can put together using the data.


mtnhome3d(Posted 2009) [#6]
so does this pull from areal twitter account, or is it just random (and ranging slightly to way more than slightly inappropriate) comments that are doctored to be zombie like?