Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Introduce yourself!

2010-02-23 Thread Jennie Lees
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

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Natural Language Processing Projects

2010-03-01 Thread Jennie Lees
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 automaticall

[twitter-dev] Re: Feature Request: Publicly Mark Tweets That You Like (i.e. digg a tweet)

2009-04-25 Thread Jennie Lees
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

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter is not making money

2009-07-19 Thread Jennie Lees
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 12:02 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > 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 k

[twitter-dev] Re: A question regarding categorization of tweets

2009-07-22 Thread Jennie Lees
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 liki

[twitter-dev] Re: HTTP 409 on status update via API

2009-08-06 Thread Jennie Lees
/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

Counting tweets without caching Twitter?

2009-02-09 Thread Jennie Lees
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to find the number of tweets matching a certain term, both overall and as a time series (e.g. how many results between 11:00 and 12:00 - I want to monitor changes over time). I can't really see an obvious way to do this beyond making a local copy of every tweet and

Re: Counting tweets without caching Twitter?

2009-02-09 Thread Jennie Lees
this would be close to fitting your needs, but something > to start with maybe... > -Chad > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Jennie Lees wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm looking for a way to find the number of tweets matching a certain >> term, both

[twitter-dev] Re: How can I automatically retweet from a list of followed accounts?

2009-03-29 Thread Jennie Lees
ed list, gets recent updates for these accounts, then posts said updates to its own account with a bit of "RT @foo" added. You can cut off messages since a particular id or time to ensure you don't duplicate etc etc. j -- Jennie Lees Founder, Affect Labs jen...@affectlabs.com http://twitter.com/jennielees

[twitter-dev] Re: Python-twitter: Public stream not updating

2009-03-31 Thread Jennie Lees
s a change in the API which > renders the python function obsolete? > > I would appreciate any help with this. > -- Jennie Lees Founder, Affect Labs jen...@affectlabs.com http://twitter.com/jennielees