Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Natural Language Processing Projects
If you're new to NLP, I recommend getting a book like Natural Language Processing with Python, using the Python Twitter API, and writing a Bayesian spam classifier. If you're less new, I've been working in sentiment classification for a while now and it's a lot of fun. Also things like automatically grouping tweeters by topic, or scanning someone's tweets to see if you should follow them, can be cool projects. j On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Bryan k0...@dbbear.com wrote: Google: Latent Semantic Analysis, Latent Relational Analysis, and Vector Space Model Check out the book: Algorithms of the Intelligent Web from Manning: http://www.manning.com/marmanis/ I've blogged a bit about some of the things I applied to Twitter at: http://skimmeragent.blogspot.com/ Good luck. Bryan
Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!
Hello folks. I'm Jen. Just moved to SF from Scotland where I ran a data intelligence startup which dug into Twitter sentiment analysis (see festbuzz.com for an example). I'm consulting, writing, speaking and doing a day job at a Silicon Valley tech co. for now, but I have a list as long as my arm of Twitter NLP stuff to play with. I'm going to chime in on the consensus for get replies to a specific tweet. Would certainly help with the anaphora resolution stuff I'm working on. j On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:54 AM, alexro arodyg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm Alex. London-based. Currently working on a conversation tracking application. My tools are .Net specific, thanks Mayo for LinqToTwitter library! Thanks to all of you for providing great advice! On Feb 21, 11:03 pm, Anton Krasovsky anton.krasov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, @ak1394 Anton Krasovsky, Dublin, Ireland. Author of PavoMe (twitter client for java mobiles). I've been working with twitter for about half a year, and my efforts are split between working on client application and backend server (which handles all communication between handset and Twitter servers, and is written in Erlang). So far the only twitter opensource released by me was an Erlang client library. I don't think anyone except me actually uses it. I'm looking forward to see xAuth avaiable - few users in China will appreciate not having to struggle with GFW to get their oauth tokens. http://github.com/ak1394/twerl http://pavo.me Regards, Anton On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp. TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles. The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status. So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added? @Abraham [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread... [2] https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e [3] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo... [4] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 -- Abraham Williams | Community Advocate |http://abrah.am Project | Out Loud |http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. Sent from Seattle, WA, United States
[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 409 on status update via API
Getting the same thing using the track function of the API. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:43 PM, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry... these are HTTP 408s... On Aug 6, 1:20 pm, briantroy brian.cosin...@gmail.com wrote: This just started today. It was working fine before and early this morning. I'm send in user updates from a widget via API. My server is whitelisted and I've got a registered service. I get a HTTP 409 on every attempt to submit a status. Not sure why... You can try it here:http://briantroy.com/blog/about I know a 409 should mean timed out... but the response comes back in one second (or just really really fast). Any help appreciated... Brian Roy justSignal -- Jennie Lees Founder, Affect Labs jen...@affectlabs.com http://twitter.com/jennielees
[twitter-dev] Re: A question regarding categorization of tweets
TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com) is the obvious answer, you can group your contacts into different panels and thus not have the noisy drown out the intelligent. Pretty sure other clients do it too, to different extents - a bit of googling and trying them out won't hurt if TD's not to your liking. ;) --j On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:10 AM, haffi e haff...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if there was an app that let's you categorize the people you're following. For example, there are some people I'm following that update their status almost every minute and it's hard to see what your friends are doing unless I stop following these super tweeters. It would be nice if I could put them all in a special category called bored or something and my friends in another category to clean things up. Do you know of any apps that do this? I haven't been searching around much but I'm on a Mac if that helps.
[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:02 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky zzn...@gmail.comwrote: Man, it is so good to hear this from someone who's actually done it! The other point, though, is that the real thing, even traffic / social network analysis, is compute-resource intensive and requires a kind of programming knowledge that few have. So if something simple, like emoticon counting, provides *some* clues about sentiment, it may be worth doing. I'm not convinced, though, that it is worth doing. I've been working on commercialising sentiment analysis research, specifically tuned to microblogs and social media, and my investigations - both academic and talking to potential customers - lead me to believe it really is worth doing. Sentiment stuff specifically can be done far more cheaply compute-wise than full-scale semantic understanding of language. The key thing though, to any app developer or startup founder, is *not* to rely on Twitter. We've been asked this several times by investors now: what happens if Twitter fails? Develop stuff that's platform and network agnostic and revel in the fact that there's definitely a ton of interest in the space right now - despite some players being around for 10 years ;) --J
[twitter-dev] Re: Feature Request: Publicly Mark Tweets That You Like (i.e. digg a tweet)
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.comwrote: You're basically asking something along the lines of a favourites-driven site. There isn't a lot out there on it, but among other things look at favrd and similar services. There's also FriendFeed which lets you upvote your friends' lifestreams, including tweets. One of the things I'm working on at the moment is automatically parsing tweets to replicate this behaviour (e.g. a RT is an upvote, and the duplicate messages get removed). Will keep you posted, Mike. However, I'm not doing the whole 'people vote other tweets up/down manually' thing; it's such a jump to get that level of user interaction frequently enough to be meaningful. -J -- Jennie Lees Founder, Affect Labs jen...@affectlabs.com http://twitter.com/jennielees
