Tweet Crunch

The Twitter Fail Whale Pale Ale Contest

Posted on 17. Aug, 2008 by John.

Tripped over this contest in my feeds from tweethunt.org , the competition is to design a Fail Whale Pale Ale label for the mythical brew, here’s how it all got started;
I noticed a reference the other day in someone’s tweetstream to the idea of "Fail Whale Pale Ale ", [...]

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Twittering Teddy is now up for sale

Posted on 20. Jun, 2008 by John.

Yes that’s right, that little fury friend that we wrote about a few days back, well I got an email from the nice people at 2pointhome telling me that it’s now on ebay and available for the highest bidder.
All the money raised will go to the Homeless Childrens Educations Fund, a  not-for-profit organization, it was [...]

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Twitter Prepares for WWDC

Posted on 08. Jun, 2008 by John.

Tomorrow is the much hyped Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference. A day that will mean an extra load on Twitter and it’s services.
Well Twitter has come out to address some concerns bloggers were having, and have taken the following steps to make sure that Twitter will stand up to the test.
Throwing Some Weight Around
We’ve moved [...]

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New Twitter Project - TwitArcs

Posted on 30. May, 2008 by John.

From the creators of TwitterSpectrum, comes a new project called TwitArcs. This project takes the latest 100 tweets from a twitter id or term of interest and creates a list representation that has arcs connecting the messages sent to the same user.

You can then click on the left side to load the tweets for a [...]

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