Oct 2008 21 st
Tweetrush update - now tracking the client stats
Just a quick one. We’ve released some updates to Tweetrush.com that has now enabled to the public, Twitter client stats.
While every attempt is made to validate our stats, there are some issues around source identification. However by and large the % totals should enable client developers to gauge the take up of their application. As an added bonus, we’ve also added the top 30 daily users of the client, just in case developers want to reach out and touch base with their most devoted users.
This release also marks an important milestone in the development of Rush Hour, our action and event based analytic engine. We’ve all been busy over the past few weeks, testing and adding new features. We expect to be on time for a version one release Q1 of next year. We’ve also had contact from some really cool companies wishing to use it, which for us is very flattering for us. But we’re also confident that our little app will more than meet their requirements and look forward to putting some really heavy hitting beats into place.
Right, back to work.
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Irish Web Awards & IT@Cork Nominations
Well, I’ve been very busy of late converting Druid DNS over to Oggim DNS. That’s going well during the day and I am glad to say its coming along very nicely at present. Still have lots of work to do on the UI, but the port to Zend Framework is going very well.
At the same time I am busy writing Rush Hour, our brand spanking new whatever analytics package (which is moving leaps and bounds now). Out of the blue I got two rather surprising and humbling emails.
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Tweetrush detects its first million tweets in one day
Its been a busy day for both Twitter & Rush Hour powered Tweetrush. Thats right, the first million barrier has been busted. Check out the Tweetrush stats for 27th August 2008.
While congrats go to Twitter for coping with the extra traffic while the DNC was on, congrats also go to Gnip, our feed provider and the Rush Hour team for desiging such a stable system considering the traffic and data we get and analyse. Its no mean thing to do, and I see the DB’s that are involved so its certainly a lot of fun.
I’m off line for a few days while I attend a family event, however I promise to respond to all RH mails when I come back. In the meantime here is a another great article on a use for Tweetrush.
1 CommentAug 2008 25 th
Tweetrush.com is live …Thank You to…
Well, what an exciting few days it has been here. TweetRush.com, the first Rush Hour proof of concept site is up and running along and so far seems to be holding fast. I’m taking a break tonight and actually sleeping for a change but rest assured all mails and tweets will be answered.
What is TweetRush about? Well its a demo of a new product we’re building that aims to take the pain out of stats for web app builders and is based on actions and events. But more on that will be released as we get closer to things getting out the door.
We put TweetRush up to get an idea of how well the engine would perform against a high volume site. Sure there are few issues mostly around the fact that we don’t get a direct Twitter feed, but over all its not bad. We hope once all is calm, to establish a good contact with Twitter and maybe a XMPP feed and see what we can both come up with. Do remember, this is still a work in progress 
Now Rush Hour and the Tweet Rush spin off are not just my babies, but also James, Walter, Grzegorz and Slawomir babies too. We have all equally put a massive effort in to get this far. Its been great to be part of a very talented team. There is also Adam, but he was busy doing marriage or something crazy so we excused him for a while, no escaping us now Adam now that you know we mean business Without all of these great people involved we would never have gotten this far at all.
I am also delighted to say we featured on TechCrunch, thank you for the exposure Michael Arrington! Thats another first I think for all of us on the team. Well since then, we’ve been inundated with greetings and well wishes as well as many questions too. Site accesses have gone through the roof (and a big thank you Donncha for the advice on what to expect DB wise). All feedback has been great to get, allowing us to enjoy the moment, but also to look deeper into our application and the Tweet Rush implementation to see what else we can do to improve its accuracy as well as seeing what peoples expectations are.
Finally there are four other people I must say thank you to as without them, nothing would have happened either. Patrick Buttimer of Eirteic Consulting for being just absolutley great. Justyna for being there and not walking out after I deserted her for weeks to work on systems and code. She’s a babe that rocks! Damien, of Mulley Communications, the PR was excellent, and support through the highs and lows, nerves and all has been second to none. Finally the growing legend that Pat Phelan of Twitterfone/Max Roam/ … (endless list of great businesses) is. His advice via tweet tennis (Is that a new term Damien?) and help in reaching people has been great. A real genuine gentleman.
Okay so sleep beckons now, I’m really hoping nobody diggs us now, being TC’d is enough for the one day More to come on Rush Hour later after I sleep.
P.S. For the PHP peeps, of course Tweetrush was written in PHP using the Zend Framework Seriously it rocks.
Aug 2008 10 th
Interesting Graph
Stats from Rush Hour
These stats were captured via the impending Rush Hour engine that myself and a few others have been developing. More info on where they come from later in the week, or eary next week. For the moment, lets just say big DB’s rock, even bigger machines rock harder and see if we can guess where they come from.
For every action there can be an equall reaction!
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