Really Real Time view to Twitter – current state

So I was stuck at home today with a cold, thought I would take an updated capture of the current state of the real time twitter client that I had previewed some time back. Since that last capture lots of things have gone in. Primarily integrated with all of the new updates from Twitter ie; lists, retweet and geo support. The tweet stream is now not a drip from the firehose but the stream via an explicit follow of the users whom I follow or are on the lists that I follow. Tweets pop up under the appropriate lists tab and also under the Merged tab which is a combined list view. Any tweet can be picked for a retweet. My tweets retweeted and replies to me appear under a separate list.

Geocoded tweets are called out by a special marker in the footer of the tweet, on hover it displays the map and reverse coded location information, thanks to YQL and the API’s from Flickr and Yahoo! maps. When used from Firefox it determines the location and adds it to the tweets that you send.

Some client side smarts like URL preview with information retrieved from TweetMeMe, preview of tweets to which a reply was sent, url shortening when sending etc…

Really realtime twitter client – current state from Jebu Ittiachen on Vimeo.

TweetALoc – Sync your geocoded tweets to FireEagle

This was always there at the back of my mind ever since Twitter announced they were adding geo tagging to status updates. So here it is TweetALoc.

Once you authorize it by linking your Twitter account and your FireEagle account, it will listen to your tweet stream, if geo information is present in any of your tweets it sends it along to FireEagle. The updates occur usually under 20secs from you tweeting. No polling involved here. Once authorized your twitter id is added to tweetaloc’s follow list within 5 minutes. So the first update will be only after that, and continuous from then on. I guess right now there are only a handful of Twitter clients which add location to your tweets, Twitter blog post on geotagging release has a list. I use one of my own which is why you see my tweets signed from nowwhat.in.

Just in case you feel that you need to stop updating into FireEagle, I have also provided for a de-authorizing facility. FireEagle tokens associated with your Twitter id are removed and your id is removed from the follow list. You can of-course go into FireEagle and remove the permissions to TweetALoc.

Behind the scenes this extends on the Erlang Twitter stream boiler plate that I had talked about in a previous post. I have used the Erlang OAuth library for talking OAuth to FireEagle and the PHP OAuth libraries for the web interface portions. That logo was GIMPed by me

Really Real Time view to Twitter

Really Real Time view to Twitter from Jebu Ittiachen on Vimeo.

This is a screen capture showing a hack put together to make the twitter display real time, it captures tweets from the stream api and filters the ones only that you follow. The capture shows a couple of users who I’m testing with @scobleizer and @zee cos they follow a lot of people.

Brought to you by Twitter stream API, XMPP PubSub (ejabberd), exmpp erlang client library for xmpp, Strophe JS library for XMPP BOSH