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Chirp Hack Day Developers

Chirp: The Twitter Developer Conference features a 24 Hack Day from 7pm on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 until 7pm on Thursday, April 15, 2010 at Fort Mason. Full details are here.

 

This page is devoted to developers attending the Hack Day who would like to collaborate before or during the event.

 

Who Are You?

List your name (email address if you want people to contact you), Twitter handle, and any areas of interest.

 

 

Things to Build?

We'll start with just a bullet list of preliminary concepts and their owners. If you're interested, add your Twitter handle in the Participants list.

  • Event Invite Tree (VIPLi.st)
    • Add a game dimension (like Foursquare mayorships) to Plancast events by tracking how many (via awe.sm) and how influential (via Klout) additional attendees a given user drives via sharing the event on Twitter.
    • Owner: @jhstrauss
    • Participants: @jeremiahlee, @newtman, @gregarious, @dustinwhittle, @basictheory
  • Plagiarism Detector
    • Find out who is copying your tweets without giving you credit through RT, /via, etc.
    • Owner: @freerobby
    • Participants: ???
  • Community Hub
    • Aggregate conversations from across the developer community. Make it fun.
    • Owner: @jot
    • Participants: @sramji
  • Tweet Catalog
    • Take the world of tweets linking to retail products (including the *shamless plug* the soon to be released public Zappos API) and create a "Real time product catalog".  
    • Owner: @whatupwilly 
    • Participants: @wubbahed
  • Twitter API Tools
    • Build a set of must-have tools that make it easy to learn about and develop against the Twitter API.  Starting with concepts like curl and charlesproxy, adding intelligence about Twitter API calls - what's needed to make life easier?  We just launched http://apigee.com/console as a live console for playing with the Twitter API.  What else do you want to see in it?
    • Owner: @sramji
    • Participants: @earth2marsh
  • Geo Based Help Service
    • Categorize the best recent questions in Twitter from within a geographic boundary, and then create a rating service for answers.
    • Owner: @hiamitabha
    • Participants: Please join 
  • Stock Market Recommenders
    • Figure out who is best at predicting stocks.
    • Compare $stocktag tweets to the market outcome and to influencer metrics.
    • Participants: @freerobby (maybe)
  • iSpy Twitter Integraton
    • Tweet when you create/play iSpy games.  Backend covered, still need an iPhone dev to integrate UI.  Any takers?  
    • Owner: @iSpy
    • Participants: @greg_gerber, @ian_mcdougald
  •  Geo Visualization of large datasets

    • Everything is or will be geolocated in the near future.  Being able to make decisions based on large data sets of geolocated data in an efficient manner will enable a new generation of tools beyond the map.

    • Owner: @globalculture
    • Participants: contact me for details on what elements of the stack already exist and what you can do to help

 

(Will probably migrate this to a table when we have more concrete concepts. As concepts get more fleshed out, it might also make sense to create a wiki page for each one.)

 

Resources

  • awe.sm - Campaign tracking platform for social media. Offers granular instrumentation of individual share actions including building parent/child relationships between tweets.
  • Backtype -  Conversation search engine. (API documentation here)
  • Klout - User influence measurement for Twitter.
  • Topsy -  "A search engine powered by Tweets." (API documentation here)
  • Twitalzyer - Twitter impact measurement tool.
  • TwapperKeeper - Archive of tweets based upon hashtag, keyword, and persons.  API to access archives is available. 
  • Intersect API - Returns mutual friends and mutual followers of two twitter users.
  • Twitoaster - Threads and Archives Twitter conversations (HTTP RESTful API available here)
  • TweetHook - Real-time twitter search powered by webhooks (HTTP API here) (I'll make a developer playground account for Chirp)
  • Ellerdale API - Access to Ellerdale's data, search, and analytic engine.
  • Infochimps' scrape of twitter: a reasonably complete picture of the entire friend graph and a historical sample of about 10% of tweets back to 2006, along with several advanced analytic products on it. 
  • Apigee - API Console for Twitter and debugger, analyzer, rate limiter for any API 

 

Datasets available on request 

 

Infochimps is making the following datasets available to developers on request. Contact info@infochimps.org to request a copy.

 

Page Rank Reputation metrics: one using the a_follows_b and one using the a_replies_b graphs  
Full reply/retweet/mention graph Every observed Reply, retweet, or mention seen in a 1.6B-tweet sample a_[rel]_b, user_a_id, user_b_id, tweet_id
Twitter Users by Background Color The number of users with each background color. color code, user count
Twitter Users by Friends Count The number of users with a given number of friends. number of friends, user count
Twitter Users by Followers Count The number of users with a given number of followers. number of followers, user count
Twitter Users by (Month/Day/Hour) Added The number of users whose accounts were created in a given month/day/hour along with the earliest seen ID in that hour. timestamp to month/day/hour, user count
Twitter Users by Location The number of users in a location string (as provided by the user in their profile). location, user count
Stock Tweets Tweets that include the stock symbol tag convention of $STOCKNAME or $$. The tweet is listed for each time a tag is used in the tweet. stock_tweet (resource name), symbol captured, tweet object (all things in a tweet)
Stock Prices Daily stock prices for the NASDAQ, NYSE, AMEX exchanges 1970-now symbol, open, low, close, high, volume

 

Infochimps has a 30-machine cluster up and running to crunch Twitter and MySpace data at terabyte-scale so if there's a dataset that would power a really interesting app please get in touch.

Comments (1)

Dustin Senos said

at 6:41 pm on Apr 7, 2010

Really looking forward to mashing up with talented developers. Make sure to say hi if you see me. See ya'll next week!

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