While waiting for one of the Twitterfall servers to come back online after an air conditioning failure in the datacentre, x5315 and I realised that instead of keeping an eye on a ping command, we could be told when the … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →