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TvTweet: Real time Twitt about Tv Shows

January 13th, 2011

I’ll present you a small side project, named “TvTweet“. Basically, the idea of TvTweet is to be able to check real time what are the discussion in twitter about TvChannel. And even better, to help you if you see something interesting and hot happening on a channel.

You can also react on Tv Shows, by sending Tweets.

Here are some screen shots:

Unfortunately, the App is only available in French and for French channels, but anybody interested by a converstion for US or UK channels (or other countries) is welcome.

There is a nice server part, “TvTweet.fr” where you can see the tweets, and also the statistics. The application is mostly client side, but the initial idea of the server side was to get statistics, like this one:

It was done quite rapidly and this was fun to create. Was build of course in Coca on the iPhone side, and using several technologies on the server side:
* Ruby On Rails for the server front end
* Node.js for a server side dispatcher, allowing you to follow real time twitter stream without being authentified.
* php for the server side stream tracker

So what I’ve learned:

* Node.js is definitvely too young, it was hard to make something work as expected , but the principle was nice. But thanks to node.js, I’ve take a deeper look to EventMachine for Ruby, and it’s probable that this part will be rewrite using rails

So last reminder: Download TvTweet for iPhone now!

Entry Filed under: iphone,Wireless