Twitter Stats - Navel Gazing at the Atomic Level!
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Twitter has been described as “micro blogging” for some time now, and blogging has always felt a bit like navel gazing to me. So by that logic Twitter would be Micro Navel Gazing (TM). Enter Twitter Stats, The Atomic Navel Gazer!
All joking aside, Twitter Stats looks pretty slick. It’s written perl, which is the only complaint I have about it. Don’t get me wrong, perl is a great language, I just don’t like it! Twitter Stats should run on any system that supports perl and the modules required for this script. It looks like it was developed on a Mac, but any nix computer and probably windows with perl on it should work. Damon (the author) suggested a web create a web service out of this, which I think is a great idea. So much so, I checked to see if TwitterStats.com was available and it’s already registered. Hopefully to Damon, but the whois info is private so it’s hard to say.
via Nicki via Download Squad
Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter Stats, Mashups
Hey Nicki, thanks for the post!
I should mention that some other people have since started playing around with the stats and there’s a ruby version at http://blog.kejadlen.net/articles/2008/01/02/twitter-stats and even a webified version at http://bradkellett.com/twitter_stats.html
I still want to make a web interface for it as it bugs me that it’s not OS-agnostic and not completely automated, but my anal retentiveness precludes me from doing so until I find a way that I like. ;o)
January 2nd, 2008 at 7:36 pm