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Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets

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Post by idpro » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 4:49 PM UTC

Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets
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Re: Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets

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Post by michaeltomko » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 4:59 PM UTC

Thanks for posting!

Re: Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets

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Post by skram » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:03 PM UTC

Very interesting. Been working on a project very similar to this!

Re: Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets

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Post by michaeltomko » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:07 PM UTC

skram wrote: post #3

Very interesting. Been working on a project very similar to this!

What platform are you building it on?

Re: Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets

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Post by idpro » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:08 PM UTC

I posted this on behalf of Michael Tomko (we're both from The Able Few), but for some reason his post never actually published...

Re: Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets

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Post by jmcnevin » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

It's worth noting that Twitter had their own project called Starling, but I get the impression they've moved on.

http://rubyforge.org/projects/starling

Re: Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets

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Post by idpro » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

jmcnevin wrote: post #6

It's worth noting that Twitter had their own project called Starling, but I get the impression they've moved on. http://rubyforge.org/projects/starling

Ya, being over 4 years old, I'm sure we can safely assume they're working on other things. :)

Thanks for the link though!

Re: Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets

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Post by skram » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:00 PM UTC

michaeltomko wrote: post #4

skram wrote: post #3

Very interesting. Been working on a project very similar to this!

What platform are you building it on?

It will be on Ruby as well. System backend is currently MongoDB

Re: Show HN: Starling - geographically analyze millions of tweets

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Post by michaeltomko » Wed, Feb 13, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

skram wrote: post #8

michaeltomko wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What platform are you building it on?

It will be on Ruby as well. System backend is currently MongoDB

Interesting. Would love to read more about it at some point.