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Random Tweet: See one random tweet at a time

by husein10 on 5/9/14, 9:06 PM with 16 comments

  • by TrainedMonkey on 5/9/14, 9:25 PM

    This is pretty cool. As a feature optional language restriction would be nice. My first random tweet was in French, second in Russian, third in Hebrew, fourth in German, fifth was same as second (same person/same tweet), and sixth was in English.
  • by dewey on 5/9/14, 9:26 PM

    Apart from the already mentioned language restriction I'd be nice if the "Another!" button would stay at the same position so you don't have to move your mouse every time you want to load another one.
  • by shurcooL on 5/10/14, 2:10 AM

    A UI critique: the "Another" button appears after the tweet. Most tweets vary in height. The result is that the button moves up and down after each press, which interrupts my ability to look at the tweet and requires me to hunt for it.

    Luckily, I could use Cmd+R to refresh the page, which lets me focus on the tweets without UI distraction. But you may want to do something about the button, which is unusable for me.

  • by eltaco on 5/10/14, 3:14 AM

    This is similar to a project I did for my visual/data analytics class

    http://twitterhealth.herokuapp.com

    Gives you a tweet in the US for you to categorize as being related to veing sick or not. Kind of like crowd sourcing classification of sick tweets. It's pretty interesting just looking through the tweets..

  • by sophacles on 5/9/14, 9:33 PM

    Bug? - So I keep clicking another, and at some point ended up in a loop where I kept seen the same half dozen tweets or so. This is on OSX - Chrome:

    Version 34.0.1847.131

  • by timhaines on 5/10/14, 1:17 AM

    Only took about 10 clicks before it came up with some porn pics.
  • by caublestone on 5/10/14, 3:57 AM

    I got 3 clicks to get to a Cat picture. Anyone else?
  • by cosmez on 5/10/14, 12:01 AM

    this should be NSFW (Not Safe For Wife). second tweet was a semi-naked girl
  • by iLoch on 5/9/14, 9:54 PM

    http://puu.sh/8FQWo.png I hate the world.