Tag Archives: twitter

Graphing retweets with Python and GraphViz

Posted on 2009-04-27 by Ben Atkin

On the microblogging site twitter, a blog post is called an update, or informally, a tweet. When someone copies a tweet and posts it to their twitter feed, it’s called a retweet. Sometimes opinions are retweeted by those who share … Continue reading →

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An alternative to URL shorteners for twitter

Posted on 2009-01-10 by Ben Atkin

As stated before on this blog, I’m a heavy twitter user. I tried to quit twitter and found that it was hard to leave. Eventually I just gave in. Now I’m following somewhere between 100 and 200 accounts. Sometimes I … Continue reading →

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Fewer twitter interruptions with TwitterFox

Posted on 2008-09-14 by Ben Atkin

Update: I was wrong about the popup preference not working. I had forgotten to turn off popup balloons on one of my computers, and missed a return statement while reading the source code. So my changes are unnecessary. I am … Continue reading →

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What I love about twitter

Posted on 2008-03-23 by Ben Atkin

I’ve become a somewhat avid twitter user over the last several months. It’s helped me to stay in contact with existing friends and to get to know a few people from Refresh Phoenix, a local web design/development club. For those … Continue reading →

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