For the past couple of weeks I have been toying with a new idea of mine. A new “visualization” of Twitter, well, really an “audio-isation” of Twitter!
The Goal: Make Twitter Talk!
Step 1. I began by writing a simple Ruby script to do the job. My ultimate goal is to have an application up and running for the Mac OS X platform.
Step 2. I packed up my code and moved it to Python. I thought writing a GUI in Python would be easier then Ruby. (Can you tell I am activly avoiding Cocoa / C)
Step 3. -PAUSE- This is where I am now… I guess I can do two things here… put together a GUI in Python OR just pick up and move to Cocoa so I can have a functioning OS X app.
I will be making it available soon on Google Code (once I pick a proper name for it and choose which license to use), but for now here is a link to the python script: dowload twitcast.py
Save the python file to your computer. To run you need the python-twitter library installed! Once you have that, in the command line, simply run ./twitcast.py and enter your username, password, and the frequency of calls to the Twitter API (120 s or 2 minutes is recommended).
Any suggestions / comments?
More to follow!