Comments on: Apprentice + Twitter = data flood

By: @ukapprentice

@ukapprentice — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:57:45 +0000

If you haven’t already, you should check out the Apprentice Twitter app by thruSITES: http://www.thrusites.com/apprentice

By: Roo

Roo — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 10:37:28 +0000

I used Snapz Pro X

By: hubs

hubs — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:13:54 +0000

What software did you use for the twitterfall screen capture?

By: Roo

Roo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:31:13 +0000

Interesting. The Twitter search API lets you specify dates (here's 'apprentice' stuff just for today's date, for example) but not times. Meanwhile, Twitter's REST API for the public timeline let's you retrieve updates made since a specified date and time, but not before. Shame. With a more fine grained API you could trivially display relevant Tweets during playback of on-demand video.

By: kyb

kyb — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:22:06 +0000

Neil: That’s a really interesting idea. You’d need some sort of playback system that could time-sync between video and twitter/whatever streams. Sounds fantastic.

By: Roo

Roo — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:44:56 +0000

Jay: yep, they’re different. You have Donald Trump, we have Alan Sugar.

By: Foomandoonian

Foomandoonian — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:09:49 +0000

I’ve been wondering the same thing about hashtags. Tags like #SXSW are doubly pointless since SXSW would never be confused with a real word.

Consider a #lost tag though. It could serve to separate messages like ‘Did anyone spot the statue in #Lost just then’ from ‘I have lost my car keys’. This only works because people are able to agree on a tag for a given topic.

I agree though, in most cases hashtags are a bit redundant.

Also, I’m impressed with Twitterfall!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:08:53 +0000

I so want to follow a show like The Apprentice through other channels alongside the TV broadcast, but I timeshift almost everything I watch so I can cut out credits, filler, ads etc. It was all I could do last night not to check twitter at any point while watching the programme in case I came across spoilers. Recording live sport of any kind can be similarly perilous.

What we timeshifters need is a way of timeshifting all those other streams as well, so even if we can’t actively participate, we could still passively follow along.

Or I could just get into the habit of watching some shows at their scheduled times….

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:55:34 +0000

I found it interesting that a lot of people grumbled and said they’d be unfollowing people after The Apprentice flood. For me, seeing the real time reaction to something like The Apprentice is what Twitter’s all about. And being able to see that within the microcosm of the people you follow, and the overall macrocosm of Twitter is really powerful stuff.

The beauty of Twitter is you can just not look at it for a while if there’s something you’re not interested in. It’s about what’s happening right now, rather than what’s happened in the past.

By: Jay the Blogger

Jay the Blogger — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:44:02 +0000

Hey Roo!

Not sure if you remember me from IBM, but this is Jay Clark from developerWorks! Nice to be following your tweets/blog! A question about the Apprentice in the UK…You said it just started last night? Here in the States, it’s been on for about 5 weeks now. I’m wondering if it’s the same or different…If it’s different, the one here in the US has been pretty good this series. I’m interested in seeing how far Dennis Rodman is going to go.