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For exposure 09 I created a twitter visualizer. Main goal was to give an impression of what was happening at the event.

If you want to know how it works you can download the code + result here: Flash twitter client.

Code is free for all purposes. But please give some credit by linking to my website, and show your results!.

I used the following libraries:

• Flasheff
• Some opensource lib I found on google code that I modified somewhat so that it uses JSON in stead of atom. I forgot where I found it. I only modified the search method, because that’s the only method I needed.
• An adobe library for parsing JSON.

The twitter-hash-tag the application follows can be found in the exposure package in the class TwitterRunner. The TwitterRunner class contains some horrible hack for the name of the month it displays.The TwitterStream class manages fetching of the tweets.

It only works offline because of Flash security restrictions. If you want to create an online version, you should create a proxy in your favorite serverside language.

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