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A Twitter Bookmarklet that Doesn’t Suck

Edit: This bookmarklet still works, but the new official Twitter one is pretty decent too, because it uses Twitter’s own URL shortener which (when all clients adopt it, Twitterfall does) will mean your URL will be shown in full in … Continue reading

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Javascript Aho-Corasick String Search Algorithm

For the new Twitterfall Exclusions filter, we needed something that would efficiently search tweets for multiple substrings. The simplest solution would be to search through the tweet multiple times for each string, but this is dumb and inefficient, especially when … Continue reading

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