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Good morning,

hope all are well.

Not really into twopular lately I got re-inspired yesterday by coming across calais

Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.

Basically this web service enables you to generate meta data for any content given, including suggesting tags. Straightforward to try what kind of meta data this service generates by feeding it with trend tweets. The first results can already be seen on the trend details pages of more recent trends.

Having collected data for only one day so far I am already pleasantly surprised about the overall result. Surely the abbreviated linguistic style of most tweets makes Natural Language Processing rather difficult in general and also tweet trend phenomena like Justin Bieber seem to pervade everything yet by refining the meta data constantly it seems to be possible to generate very reasonable results for twitter trends with the use of calais.

Even so having tags for twitter trends is nice in itself the main purpose for making this experiment (and as it is also envisioned by calais) is to use this trend meta information to interrelate trends, creating a web of related trend based on tag similarities. Related trends can also be seen on the respective trend detail pages, something more posh and visual based on the wonderful flare toolkit will hopefully come once the elephant has collected more meta data.

Happy always

martin

Twopular is now one year online and keeps surfing happily on the insanely growing tweet mania wave …

Good morning,

hope all are well.

Today I switched the rows and columns of the listed trends on the twopular start page. The idea is of course that the displayed information becomes more readable by that. Please let me know if you think this wasn’t particular smart.

greets

martin

Good morning,

hope all are well.

Today I included trend background information from the great web service whatthetrend on the trend detail pages.

whatthetrend generously offers an API to access the collected data. Makes me wonder why twopular is not offering any API.

Thanks whatthetrend

Good morning,

below a list of the 100 most used words within the around 37 million trend tweets twopular has collected so far. This list excludes common words like “and,or,the,0,1,http” etc.

This list is a byproduct of my “efforts” to make the trend tweets twopular has collected in the last year accessible via search. As most of you have noticed for sure the “number of days back” covered by the twitter search engine is getting smaller and smaller due the exploding amount of tweets they have to handle. Currently only tweets at most 7 days back seem to be searchable on twitter.

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Good morning,

twopular labs proudly presents twopular sparklines

While also working on the twopular engine occasionally I really enjoy creating visualization of the data the elephant has collected. Hope some of you enjoy the results too.

Greets

martin

Good morning,

today twopular transformed into something completely new – it is not declared as beta any more. And I promise to let everybody know immediately as soon as I found out why.

Happy always

martin

Good morning,

today I finally opened the doors to twopular labs which is supposed to become an informal pool for my experiments with visualizing the twitter trend sphere. As a first application you can find a twitter trend heat map in this lab.

Enjoy

martin

Accompanied by the usual turbulences the elephant finally arrived at the new server.

Besides the benefit of better response times I hope to use this improved setup for juicing twopular up a bit.

Cheers

martin

Good morning,

hope all are well out there.

After the elephant has been complaining quite a bit over the last weeks we decided to follow his demands and move him to a better server. After all further developments of twopular have been hindered at least partly by our limited server capacities so we are excited to expand in that regard soon.

Please expect some turbulences with twopular over the next two weeks and don’t miss to address any feature requests you have for the blue one.

Cheers

martin