In an effort to get working on some code and improve that aspect of my skills I started to look at jQuery. This was largely inspired by seeing what @suth did with Social Timeline and borrows heavily as well as learning lots from his work. The idea behind My Day On Twitter (MDOT) is to have a simple dashboard (buzzword alert!) of my day’s twitter activity; conversations, mentions, favourites, new followers/followees. I’ve filtered mentions so that only ‘free standing’ mentions are included i.e. those which aren’t a reply (as these would show up in the main conversation timeline). It’s built on the Thinkup (by @ginatrapani) API so as of now only posts data is accessible. This means only conversations and mentions from the functionality list above are included. MDOT makes use of the excellent Embed.ly to provide a preview of any linked content in a tweet. So, posted images will show up as well a Google Map preview when I tweet from @cyclemeter
This is what it looks like in action:
I have it running on http://mdot.jamesgallagher.ie and you can get it off github at https://github.com/tisjames/My-Day-On-Twitter . You will need to be running Thinkup > 1.0 which is the version currently available for download – I added a fix for an API method (yes, I’m rather proud of that commit as my first ever to an open source project!).
