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Comment on Some Twitter Bot Service Basics by Aaron Bassett

Aaron Bassett — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:22:21 +0000

You can merge multiple phrases into a single request using OR operators. Wouldn’t suggest doing it for hundreds or thousands of phrases but would def work for 3 phrases. So that’s only 3 requests rather than 9. Also as you do not need to grab every tweet you could reduce the frequency of your requests. So if you were grabbing the public timeline at a rate of once per minute, but your key phrases are only uttered once an hour you could reduce your requests down to once every 4 days (search brings back max of 100 results @ 1 per hr these 100 results would cover 4.16667 days, extreme example but you get what I mean)

But you are correct about it not working if you have hundreds of bots, none of the rate limited services would. But once you reach of those kind of traffic levels maybe you could make a good pitch for requesting access to the ‘Firehose’ – http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/twitter-and-xmpp-drinking-from-fire.html

Comment on Some Twitter Bot Service Basics by Dan

Dan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:01:02 +0000

Ah but the issue with that is i then have to run a search api query for every phrase for every bot.

As this system is already running 3 bots and (currently) 3 phrases each that’s 9 requests verse 1 request.

And I am hoping to build on this to eventually end up running tens (maybe even hundreds) of bots which as far as i can tell from the rate limits would just be totally undoable

Also more bots/phrases the % of useful tweets also goes up ^^

Happy to be corrected if I am wrong though

Comment on Some Twitter Bot Service Basics by Aaron Bassett

Aaron Bassett — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:55:39 +0000

Rather than catch every (or attempt to) tweet via public stream you could use the search API. That way you are only lifting out tweets that matter to the bot.

So for example say every 10,000 tweets you grab from public timeline one contains the phrase you are looking for then only 0.0001% of the data stored in your DB is useful to the bot.
If you use the search API to only grab those of interest it rises to 100%

Comment on YouTube tries… and fails to add new features – Turn down the lights by Dan

Dan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:13:45 +0000

Excuse me… I know exactly what I am talking about thank you.

First off, there is nothing wrong referring to HTML, CSS, PHP or in fact any programming or Mark-up language as “code”.

I having been coding or should I say authoring websites for good few years now, I sell my services doing so and run a web hosting company so I do have a good idea about what I am talking about.

Also it isn’t so much that “a” site made an error, its more the fact a site which in my opinion shouldn’t made simple errors made the error, because in my opinion a massive website like YouTube which is run by the largest internet corporation to ever of existed with the best and brightest working for them… well now when you have those resources there really is NO reason to have things like this… where was the testing? where was the monkeys checking how this looked on every browser and operating system before it went live?

Comment on YouTube tries… and fails to add new features – Turn down the lights by JoeJoe

JoeJoe — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:07:20 +0000

Oh come ON, don’t be retarded, the fact that you referred to an HTML error as “coding”, shows you have no idea what you’re talking about either. UH OH! A site made an error, give me a break, anything to make yourself look smarter.

Comment on YouTube: New user page layout by Dan

Dan — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:41:54 +0000

Hey,

Just login to your YouTube account and the go to this “seekrit” link http://zurl.in/emgj it will direct you and should just give you a button to “turn on” beta profile, and just go to it after to turn it back off.

Hope this helps, and thanks for reading the blog!
Dan

Comment on YouTube: New user page layout by Breathe

Breathe — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:18:46 +0000

Hi Dan! great post here
Can you please tell me how to set it up? I didn’t find the beta profile option =\

Comment on YouTube tries… and fails to add new features – Turn down the lights by YouTube: New Pop Out Video Feature | D-Blog

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Comment on FAIL: YouTube Britains Got Talent Licensing. by Dan

Dan — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:01:36 +0000

I have a good point in my mind thank you.

I am British (so not quite sure how I would fail at that, its not exactly something you achieve… it just is)…

The show is British, its called “Britain’s” got Talent, and yet because of licensing the people of Britain can’t watch YouTube content of the show… and yet American can.

I simply miss the logic, British show, Made in Britain, about Britain, For Britain… and yet they wont license it to Britain. I mean seriously?

The whole point of YouTube putting shows and movies etc. on to their site was so they could try and raise much needed ad revenue from advertisers who prefer to advertise with “premium” content, but instead the UK has to watch the clips of Susan Boyle surprising the nation instead on normal channels which do NOT carry ANY adverts (and there for only COST YouTube money) which were uploaded by normal users, there-fore meaning both YouTube and the content creators… FremantleMedia Ltd, Simco Ltd, talkbackTHAMES, SyCo Tv and ITV cannot benefit from the content.

If you can explain the logic to me, please do I am happy to hear it.

Thanks for your comment

Comment on FAIL: YouTube Britains Got Talent Licensing. by Nikki

Nikki — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:41:50 +0000

Your point is what? Your failure to be British, UTube? It’s unintelligible writing?