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Re: Random Tweet: See one random tweet at a time

#6

This is pretty cool. As a feature optional language restriction would be nice. My first random tweet was in French, second in Russian, third in Hebrew, fourth in German, fifth was same as second (same person/same tweet), and sixth was in English.

I actually think that result aligns perfectly with the creator's intent: "This is intended as a live demo that most people on twitter are not like you."

Re: Random Tweet: See one random tweet at a time

#7

Bug? - So I keep clicking another, and at some point ended up in a loop where I kept seen the same half dozen tweets or so. This is on OSX - Chrome: Version 34.0.1847.131

I think that is because they are using https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample

This is dev stream and it has tiny number of tweets.

Re: Random Tweet: See one random tweet at a time

#8

Bug? - So I keep clicking another, and at some point ended up in a loop where I kept seen the same half dozen tweets or so. This is on OSX - Chrome: Version 34.0.1847.131

I think that is because they are using https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/statuses/sample This is dev stream and it has tiny number of tweets.

Yes I think that was mentioned in the copy. It's also not really "random." It's one of the last 20 tweets globally. You probably won't ever see a tweet older than a few minutes.

Re: Random Tweet: See one random tweet at a time

#10
post #6

This is pretty cool. As a feature optional language restriction would be nice. My first random tweet was in French, second in Russian, third in Hebrew, fourth in German, fifth was same as second (same person/same tweet), and sixth was in English.

I actually think that result aligns perfectly with the creator's intent: "This is intended as a live demo that most people on twitter are not like you."

I can't tell if they are like me or not because I can't read the tweet in another language. It might be my french doppelganger also complaining about his current lack of caffeine.
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