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My Hobby Project: Wispy, a canvas powered word cloud generator

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Re: My Hobby Project: Wispy, a canvas powered word cloud generator

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My twitter account (@vraa) is not protected. But when I tried, I got an error message "Whoops, either that twitter user does not exist, or their account is protected, try someone else.". tried both vraa and @vraa without success! may be a bug or twitter quota has exceeded?

Try changing the case of the letters, I had the same issue.

Re: My Hobby Project: Wispy, a canvas powered word cloud generator

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I have a few feature requests; mainly because I noticed missing 3 letter words in my own cloud: * Add handling for hashtags (overriding the min character length) * Slightly more complicated: consider adding click detection on mentions, replies, and hashtags to link to their perspective urls. This would be a very neat addition. http://www.quora.com/HTML5/Is-it-possible-to-add-links-to-HT...

At present wispy ignores all 3 letter words, apart from a small list considered "non boring", it also ignores plenty of longer words that are considered generally meaningless, The hashtag idea is good, ill look into that, consider it on my todo list :)

Click detection is something I have been thinking about, its not as hard as you think as the general coordinates of each word are stored when building the cloud in the first place.

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