As usual, when your mind races at night, it's tough to sleep. Instead of tossing and turning, I decided to quickly bang out some code using twitter's search API that displays the latest images posted to twitpic.<p>There's probably so many places I could go with this - so, any ideas for enhancements?
I know it would take away from the "liveness" of it but it would be neat if you could wait for an entire rows worth of images to appear and have a smooth animation that pushed everything down to make room for that new row.<p>The way each image is added currently is a little "jarring" visually...<p>Cool though :-)
I can't see the site (getting 403), but I wrote a live TwitPic viewer for TweetGrid several months ago at <a href="http://tweetgrid.com/twitpicgrid" rel="nofollow">http://tweetgrid.com/twitpicgrid</a> - you can filter by search term or hashtag or whatever, or you can just watch the full stream come in.
This would be really useful if you could filter by subject (search term or hash tag). It'd be a great way to see pictures of a live conference or news event as it was unfolding (to go along with <a href="http://almost.at/" rel="nofollow">http://almost.at/</a>)
Would be nice to have a customizable update timer or a way to slow down the stream.<p>It appears that some users do not fully grasp the fact that twitter (and related apps) is much more "open" than facebook. Some of the pictures seem pretty private.
Would you mind posting the source code (or emailing it to me)? I'm interested in seeing how you coded it (not to mention structured it). My background in developing web applications is relatively weak.<p>But if you'd like to keep it to yourself, I can understand...no pressure.
Try <a href="http://twitcaps.com" rel="nofollow">http://twitcaps.com</a> - More like 3 sleepless nights of work. But, it does support all major Twitter image hosts and allows searches / filters / captures / location aware, etc.
That's pretty neat.<p>However, I can't help asking myself if this real adds any real value to the world. Not that it has to. It's like mental candy. Pleasing, but ultimately lacking in substance.