11–16 of 16 posts
How did you get access to this data in real time?
It looks like your browser connects to the Twitter API.
Edit: looking through the javascript, it seems that it pretty much just refreshes the page on a interval and the server gets the data from twitter
I'm amazed that twitter for blackberry has as many users as twitter for android and iphone!
Neat, but the frequent updates make it hard to read anything other than the major apps.
If you really want to visualize the movement of the percentages use a stacked percentage chart like this one:
http://www.highcharts.com/demo/area-stacked-percent
Ofcourse I would suggest 2 again, one for the big clients and one for the small ones :)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It looks like your browser connects to the Twitter API.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't Same origin policy block that? Edit: looking through the javascript, it seems that it pretty much just refreshes the page on a interval and the server gets the data from twitter
I'm updating every 500ms and not every time I receive a tweet because of performance issues.
Thanks for the feedback.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't Same origin policy block that? Edit: looking through the javascript, it seems that it pretty much just refreshes the page on a interval and the server gets the data from twitter
I'm using a library I made in node.js ( https://github.com/danzajdband/Tuiter ) to retrieve the tweets server-side via the Twitter Streaming API ( https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis ). Then I send the "Twitter client" to the client using Socket.IO. I'm refreshing the chart, not the entire site, every 500 ms = 1/2 seconds to update the chart. I'm updating every 500ms and not every time I receive a tweet becau…