Damon Cortesi just shared a handy script for grabbing your tweets and compiling some stats about when you post to twitter and who you reply to.
His script generates a list of numbers and included a Numbers template to paste them into. Since I don’t have Numbers, I’ve modified his script to write a file that can be read by gnuplot, and wrote a basic gnuplot script to output an SVG file version of the stats.
While I was at it, I changed it so it no longer counts “@someone” separately from “@someone:”.
Both scripts are right here – gnuplot_twitterstats.tgz
It uses gnuplot 4.2, which you can get on OS X with macports using port install gnuplot +no_x11'. (Or it’s a pretty easy build on its own, see the gnuplot download page )
Here are my stats: Click here for a full-screen version.
1:15 pm January 2, 2008
You might also want to try the
+no_x11variant of gnuplot, by usingport install gnuplot +no_x11.I don’t want to build all of X on this machine just to check out my Twitter stats ;)
Good point Colin. I hadn’t actually tried the macports - I apparently built gnuplot myself, but for the life of me I can’t remember why, and I wasn’t going to recommend it - but if the port tries to build X11, that’s even worse…
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