Project title: Twitter for Dummies
Project description: The project users Twitter API to suggest mentions and hashtags based on multiple criteria This web site helps users find relevant twitter hashtags and mentions based on the following:
Friends: Recently used hashtags and mentions from your home line (people you follow) Nearby: Recently used hashtags and mentions within 3 miles of your current location Specific Users: Recently used hashtags and mentions for a specific user. TO use, type a username in the left username box anc click "Grab'em". Suggestions: Recently used hashtags based on what you type in your tweet. To use, type your tweet and click "Suggest Tags". An algorithm will analyze the text and suggest mentions and hashtags. Note: Multiword matches are ranked higher than single word matches.
Team members and roles:
- Hassan Jannah: UI and Backend object classes
- Christopher Fan: API calls, PHP, & ranking function
- Ramit Malhotra: Text analysis & backend
Technologies used HTML, Javascript, JQuery, Twitter API, PHP
Link to demo version http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~jannah/iolab-metacrap/index.html
Known bugs
- Twitter API does not return geolocation. We implemented the ability to add markers to the map but we are not getting location data to display it.
- The API uses a single dummy user account to load the homeline. Ideally, a user sholud authenticate to get suggestions based on his own homeline. We tried to get the API to work for sometime. However, we decided to spend the time on the functionality rather than waste a lot of time getting the user authentication to work since the idea is the same.