Erg... added some connection failure logic so that if the stream "dies" or my comet interface dies it will attempt to reconnect. Sorry to those greeted with a blank page :)
-Chad On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > The twitterfall guys have a cool demo up at > http://hose.twitterfall.com/ showing the /spritzer stream over the > web. > > This inspired me to look into a comet server - http://meteorserver.org > in this case - and try my own example: > > http://idek.net/B_S > > This basically just tallies the twitter client sources as they come > in... kinda fun to watch and see the clients' "market share" as it > were... > > The point here is not how cool this is to look at, but how dead simple > it was to throw together. Litterally about 20 minutes to set up the > Meteor server, write a quick twitter-stream to meteor interface in PHP > and throw together a few lines of HTML/javascript. Cheers to John and > team for this great source of data to play with! > > If anyone is interested in seeing the PHP script to interface the > stream w/ the server, let me know. > > -Chad >
