Afrigator Tweet and Trends

Time is so limited lately. And to top it all off, we had to pay more school fees to the Gator… Fortunately, a bit of database caching made life a lot prettier on the performance side!

In between everthing we’ve managed to bring out two new things with a whole lot still to come!

The first is that the Gator is catching birds now. Twittering birds. How? By Twittering himself, of course! If you are a keen twitterer (specially if you use your instant messenger to update your Twitter status and follow your fellow twitter friends) you can select to follow and/or receive IM notifications at http://twitter.com/afrigator. You will be sent a random item selected from a pool of the latest 24 hours posts in the african blogging continent. Only 1 random item an hour! We have no intentions to flood your IM. 24 a day is what you’ll get.

The second thing is quite a nice one. It is some very interesting stats, which will (hopefully) prove that social media is NOT dead! A bunch of cool graphs indicating some community statistics like:

• how many clicks does the gator send to users per month
• how many clicks per day
• how many blog posts per month
• and per day
• how many unique visitors and pageviews per day
• how much traffic in total
• the daily average

You will find it by clicking on the Blog Trends button in the main menu. Go check it out!

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Tags: afrigator, statistics, twitter

5 Comments to "Afrigator Tweet and Trends"

• New Blog Trends and Twitter Channel « Afrigator Blog said: On 08/29/2007 at 12:36 pm

  [...] If you’re interested in finding out more check-out Stii’s post here. [...]

• Charl van Niekerk said: On 08/29/2007 at 4:52 pm

  What about doing Jaiku too? Teh Python code:

  s = xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(’http://api.jaiku.com/xmlrpc’)
  s.presence.send({’user’:'afrigator’, ‘personal_key’:'12345′, ‘message’:'whateveryouwannasend’})

  Just get yourself an account, your right key, and replace as necessary. Personally I just put this in a try and catch block where I catch everything as ‘Exception’ in case something goes wrong. If the post fails, so what. I don’t see any fancy error handling as necessary.

• Armand du Plessis said: On 08/29/2007 at 7:57 pm

  Very nice! What are you guys using for the graphs? Looks pretty slick!

• Stii said: On 08/30/2007 at 8:57 am

  @ Armand: Thanks man! We use Maani flash graphs. http://www.maani.us/

  Its pretty nifty must say, and they’ve got a XML version. So I guess if you want to write them some Rails wrappers they’d be greatful!

• Stii said: On 08/30/2007 at 8:59 am

  @ Charl: Cool thanks. To be completely honest, I’ve never even been on the Jaiku web site. Read about it over at Chilibeans, just never made the time or efforts to check it out. In the near future bud…

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