South African Twitter Mashups

Multi (Stii’s Neville Newey’s answer to Digg.com) and developer Wogan May recently started doing some interesting things with Twitter and the Summize API. Basically both of them aggregate and display content from Twitter users in Africa, primarily South Africa.

TWITTER SA

Posts made by South African users are all syndicated to a single feed, spam/automated/news posts are filtered out, and the end result is a live stream of current Twitter conversations in South Africa. The site uses a local MySQL database to store the tweets, making them accessible even if Twitter goes down (which it’s known for). The site comes in two flavors: AJAX (“Live”) and HTML. The AJAX version refreshes the stream without reloading the page, uses less bandwidth, and is less obtrusive – but it doesn’t allow for pagination (yet). The HTML version is set to refresh the page every 60 seconds, allows for pagination, and is made available just in case your browser does not support AJAX. You can browse back through the tweets simply by using the “« Newer” and “Older »” links in the timer bar.

ZA TWEETS

This site uses the summize API to aggregate and make searchable all tweets from those users that have registered on the wiki. It is by no means complete. Times are still in GMT, search is minimal, urls are not even clickable yet.