Emoji Storm
November 20, 2019 11:25 AM Subscribe
I want to believe, but is it really? Firefox doesn't show any data being transferred after the initial page load. Please do show me the error of my ways, if I have them.
posted by Kikujiro's Summer at 11:45 AM on November 20, 2019
posted by Kikujiro's Summer at 11:45 AM on November 20, 2019
Chrome shows an event stream coming from:
Firefox's debugger doesn't show it as a constantly-open network connection like Chrome's does, but it's there.
posted by axiom at 11:50 AM on November 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
https://stream.emojitracker.com/subscribe/epsFirefox's debugger doesn't show it as a constantly-open network connection like Chrome's does, but it's there.
posted by axiom at 11:50 AM on November 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
The claim of every emoji in real time seems questionable, considering the volume of tweets generated daily vs the query limits imposed by Twitter's API. Somebody has to be doing that scraping somewhere, and Twitter doesn't make it easy or cheap.
posted by at by at 11:55 AM on November 20, 2019
posted by at by at 11:55 AM on November 20, 2019
I suppose we could all tweet a bunch of rare emojis (like 🤹, 🤽, 1️⃣, or 🕴️) and see if they show up
posted by LiteS at 12:09 PM on November 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by LiteS at 12:09 PM on November 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
Okay, my comment above is misunderstood and the link is misleading. It looks like it's possible to stream realtime through the powertrack API, which includes an "emoji" property. So that covers the "easy" part, but this is only available to Enterprise access accounts, which still ain't cheap (they're implicitly more expensive than Premium access, which starts at $100/month)
posted by at by at 12:11 PM on November 20, 2019
posted by at by at 12:11 PM on November 20, 2019
Imagine a version of this where the emoji are arranged on a rough world map... Projected in Times Square.
I believe this is based on emojitracker, which has been around forever. IIRC they got a special dispensation to keep using the Twitter firehose feed after Twitter started shutting people out of it.
The implementation is on Observable, which means the Javascript code that implements it is right there running in your browser. You can even edit it and have it change live! Make it rain up instead of down or whatever. The code is very simple and readable if you're a programmer. The way the emojis are tracked is already unfurled (emojis = Generators.observe...). The drawing code is hidden; you can view it by clicking the three vertical dots to the left of the emoji display and selecting "Edit".
posted by Nelson at 12:19 PM on November 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
I believe this is based on emojitracker, which has been around forever. IIRC they got a special dispensation to keep using the Twitter firehose feed after Twitter started shutting people out of it.
The implementation is on Observable, which means the Javascript code that implements it is right there running in your browser. You can even edit it and have it change live! Make it rain up instead of down or whatever. The code is very simple and readable if you're a programmer. The way the emojis are tracked is already unfurled (emojis = Generators.observe...). The drawing code is hidden; you can view it by clicking the three vertical dots to the left of the emoji display and selecting "Edit".
posted by Nelson at 12:19 PM on November 20, 2019 [2 favorites]
All the black heart emoji makes me smile. 🖤
posted by Fizz at 12:21 PM on November 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
posted by Fizz at 12:21 PM on November 20, 2019 [1 favorite]
Is the rumor true that the next revision of JavaScript will begin replacing function calls with emoji in the code?
posted by sammyo at 12:27 PM on November 20, 2019
posted by sammyo at 12:27 PM on November 20, 2019
Fewer eggplants and peaches than I expected.
posted by jenkinsEar at 1:00 PM on November 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
posted by jenkinsEar at 1:00 PM on November 20, 2019 [3 favorites]
MetaFilter: Fewer eggplants and peaches than I expected; all the black heart emoji makes me smile.
posted by chavenet at 1:11 PM on November 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 1:11 PM on November 20, 2019 [4 favorites]
Imagine watching this like Ozymandias watching his wall of televisions trying to determine the national mood
posted by The Whelk at 1:43 PM on November 20, 2019 [5 favorites]
posted by The Whelk at 1:43 PM on November 20, 2019 [5 favorites]
Someone needs to get this in front of Trump. I have visions of him spending all day tweeting emojis to see them drop down the screen of this site. Or, tweet-storming his anger when he doesn’t see his emojis fast enough.
posted by Thorzdad at 1:52 PM on November 20, 2019
posted by Thorzdad at 1:52 PM on November 20, 2019
Meh, they need to make it a big map that keeps near-in-codepoint emoji near each other and be bright and fade depending on frequency. Random rain and fade are unimpressive.
posted by zengargoyle at 3:51 PM on November 20, 2019
posted by zengargoyle at 3:51 PM on November 20, 2019
The year is 2032. I am listening to my granddaughter sing The Emoji Song she learned in grade school:
posted by straight at 12:42 AM on November 21, 2019
Grinning face, grinning big eyes, grinning smiling eyes,She has been singing for twelve minutes and I have no idea how much longer this is goes on.
Beaming smiling, grinning squinting, grinning face with sweat,
Rolling on the floor laughing, face with tears of joy...
posted by straight at 12:42 AM on November 21, 2019
(probably about an hour if there's still only about three- or four-thousand emoji by then)
posted by straight at 12:46 AM on November 21, 2019
posted by straight at 12:46 AM on November 21, 2019
I never bother even looking at emojis to try and figure out what they are, just ignore them.
posted by bongo_x at 2:10 PM on November 22, 2019
posted by bongo_x at 2:10 PM on November 22, 2019
Oneohtrix Point Never - "Boring Angel" (2013) dir. John Michael Boling
posted by Cpt. The Mango at 10:00 AM on November 23, 2019
posted by Cpt. The Mango at 10:00 AM on November 23, 2019
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