By using the provided twitter API it is easily possible to automate or simplify your important status updates. For instance, consider your favorite fortune message of the day to show an astonishing resemlance to your twitter status. The following bits of code take over the job of submitting this message, leaving even more leisure time for your enjoyment, while pretending to be actually involved in yet another web2.0 application.
Continue reading "twittering fortune cookies" »Friday, March 16. 2007
twittering fortune cookies
friends of friends of friends
twitter, the WYSIWYAD (what you see is what you are doing) platform - not to confuse with twitter - incorporates a social network structure. Any user can have other users marked as friends. A simple visualization of all direct friends of a randomly chosen twitter user and their relation to each other could look like this:
If we look one recursion level deeper into this social structure it might divulge an even more complex structure: johl-2-1.pdf
The software used to extract these graphs from twitter is available from my projects page.
