Comments on: March of the tweeps

March of the tweeps

ardgedee — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:20:13 -0800

Twitter Parade: Icons happily march across your screen following the topic (or Twitter account) of your choice. In Flash with sound.

The site's mostly in Japanese but should be reasonably easy to figure out: Enter a Twitter ID or click on Keyword and enter one (it doesn't have to be a hashtag), and it leads a parade while happy music plays. Random word balloons will pop up, but if you click on an icon, you can see their latest tweet and a two-item menu labeled in Japanese (The first item starts a new parade in that icon's honor, the second item pauses the parade and opens a new window with that user's Twitter page).

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:25:26 -0800

Loading ... 57% ... 58% ... 59% ...

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:27:17 -0800

Once it loads it's pretty entertaining--especially if you plug in tcot or Obama or something political.

By: The Winsome Parker Lewis

The Winsome Parker Lewis — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:29:58 -0800

Is that music randomly generated? I think that's the coolest part of the whole thing.

By: sanko

sanko — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:30:44 -0800

mrgrimm, at least your progress was increasing. Mine went 1% ... 2% ... 3% ... 1% ... 0%. Too slow; didn't load.

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:31:11 -0800

Someone needs to make a shoddy American knockoff to deal with these slow load times.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:31:36 -0800

It does nice transitions if you enter new keywords or usernames.

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:32:04 -0800

Mine's loaded, but it's taking even longer to load the twitter account I choose. Anyone want to translate the "popular" ones it lists?

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:35:01 -0800

Sorry for the slowness. The site's getting slammed. It's worth the wait if you can get in, though.

By: mazola

mazola — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:42:10 -0800

Finally! Twitter the way it was meant to be seen!

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:45:45 -0800

This demands a Wii app.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:45:59 -0800

And when it loads, it's pretty cool!

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:51:28 -0800

I think it overloads if I choose something too popular. It's been loading tweets about Lady Gaga for five minutes now.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:53:59 -0800

Mccarty.tim, it's taking all my restraint not to change the It's to a I've in your last comment.

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:54:47 -0800

If it makes you feel better, I looked at Taters first.

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:55:30 -0800

That said, the twitterverse has the most inane thoughts possible on Lady Gaga. Inane even for Twitter. Let's see how it feels about folk group Dala...

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:58:38 -0800

Aw, that's sad. Dalagirls had no followers in the parade. Even though they have like 761 on their Twitter page.

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:02:41 -0800

How exactly does this thinger work? Does it have to be people who recently tweeted about a person?

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:02:59 -0800

the twitterverse has the most inane thoughts possible on Lady Gaga Water is wet, etc.

By: blucevalo

blucevalo — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:04:02 -0800

But what does it think of Justin Bieber?

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:05:52 -0800

I wanted to see the right wings grariness re: Miss America being a Muslim, so I typed in "Islam." It's been loading for about 10 minutes. I can't wait to see the happy Tea Party Parade!

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:08:27 -0800

Aw, that's sad. Dalagirls had no followers in the parade. Even though they have like 761 on their Twitter page. Twitter Walk of Shame!

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:15:48 -0800

Yep, turns out the TCOT crowd aren't so happy that a brown person won Miss USA.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:31:37 -0800

The pole dancing should cheer them up, though.

By: tybeet

tybeet — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:33:05 -0800

I ♡ Japan.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:46:09 -0800

Wow, who knew the tweetstream was so jaunty!

By: angrycat

angrycat — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:46:55 -0800

you can turn the volume down on the music by clicking on the little equalizer thing at the top

By: slogger

slogger — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:06:26 -0800

This is way more awesome than I thought it would be...

By: msbutah

msbutah — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:15:51 -0800

This is like a Twitter sourced Mii parade. I just wanna grab one of them with my Wiimote and throw them across the screen.

By: msbutah

msbutah — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:19:53 -0800

Oh for the sweet love of god do not put in "cat videos" unless you want a deluge of dancing porn spam bots.

By: needled

needled — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:30:06 -0800

I've been having a lot of fun entering k-pop idol group names (e.g. "tohoshinki", "superjunior" ...)

By: mccarty.tim

mccarty.tim — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:22:28 -0800

I think we killed it.

By: mexican

mexican — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:23:53 -0800

pretty nice music for a mobile phone ad