Comments on: Twitalytic Alpha Preview: Archiving, Curating, and Threading Tweets

By: Ketan

Ketan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:08:35 +0000

Hi Gina, Great idea here, I stumbled across the project via the Mine!Project blog. I've installed the app locally and got as far as trying to add my Twitter account into the system - for some reason the app isn't generating an oAuth token, I'm getting some php Warnings. I haven't got much more time to spend on it now, but it looks very useful, will try and see if I can figure out the token problem @ketan

By: mwgrl5

mwgrl5 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:59:37 +0000

Gina,

For those of us not quite at the level of installing our own servers and then this software onto the servers, do you have any advice or recommendations? I would love to first and foremost archive and have access to my tweets. I would love the ability to run some analytics as well, but more importantly would be having access to my whole history.

Jeff Jarvis gave one solution using Twistory and Google Calendars, but it only goes back 1 week’s time. While I haven’t been tweeting for years, it has been a few months and 1 week’s worth is much less than I’d like.

So, any tips or suggestions?

Thanks,

mwgrl5

By: ehuna

ehuna — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:16:37 +0000

Gina, great work – thanks!

Quick suggestion: have a suffix at the beginning of your table names. For example, “owners” becomes “ta_owners”, “tweets” becomes “ta_tweets”, etc…

My host only gives me one MySQL database that all my apps can access. Other apps have this suffix, such as “mt_*” for Movable Type tables, “g2_*” for Gallery2 tables, etc… so it makes it much easier to work with the tables.

By: capryor

capryor — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:39:11 +0000

I’m a noob, so I have to ask: What do I do when PuTTY tells me “ln: creating symbolic link ‘twitalytic/webapp’ to ‘alyxportur.com/tweets’: No such file or directory”? (pls email me via capryor@alyxportur.com so I can get this fixed fast. Tks!)

By: got80s

got80s — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:12:02 +0000

Got it up and running on http://ival.us just a project for now.. not the main purpose for purchasing the domain… (ival.us = visual)

By: Mike Carlucci

Mike Carlucci — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:42:36 +0000

Just heard about this on the TWIG podcast. Sounds pretty cool, though I have no webapp background to even attempt to use it.

By: cmcraft

cmcraft — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:25:37 +0000

Gina,

Looks like David Pogue is looking for something like this, so I told him about your code.

http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/tools-for-twitter/#comment-216057

We’ll see if he’s interested.

Chris

By: Stephen Zeidner

Stephen Zeidner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:22:38 +0000

Thanks for this wonderful open source contribution Gina! I installed this on my Ubuntu server at home and really like the threading features and the fact that I can keep a local copy of my tweets. I can’t wait to see how it influences the movement towards a federated Twitter.

P.S. Keep up the good work on TWiG. You, Jeff and Leo always have great insights that I enjoy thinking about throughout the week.

By: snyderxc

snyderxc — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:44:08 +0000

I’m a total novice! I hope I can get this set up. Couple ideas though:
1) When Do you Twitter Most? (Day of Week, Time of Day, etc.)
2) What sites do you link to the most (NOT Bit.ly)

Looks awesome!
Will post back!

By: Michael Doornbos

Michael Doornbos — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:32:29 +0000

I installed this today and love it. Thanks Gina!