Tweetopia

3D Twitter Visualization

Tweetopia is a 3D Twitter hashtag visualizaiton based on WebGL and built using Three.js

Learn more at the project page or see it live at Tweetopia.net.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Changelog

r15

• This project has been killed after 10+ years due to Twitter's hostile API policies. A version serving synthetic data is available for historic purposes.

r14

• Moving to Netlify with a serverless function.

r13

• Cleanup for migration from Heroku to Dokku.

r12

• Major overhaul to support Twitter API changes.
• Now uses a web service for search requests.

r11

• Minor tweaks for initial public release.

r10

• GA tracking.
• Initial character faces.
• Username display.
• Image contrast.
• Webfont Support
• More careful bubble distribution.
• Better handling of Twitter requests.
• Day/night color changes

r09

• Detection of WebGL support.
• Colored hashtags and usernames.
• Added simple favicon.
• Pre-launch splash page.
• URL hashtag support.
• Defaults to #WebGL.

r08

• Splash screen on startup.
• Custom shaders for star and sky.
• Refined ground to match style frame.

r07

• Added SimpleNoise.js for more fluid terrain.
• New ttcontrol object for scene control fucntions.
• Restyled panel as speech bubble with pre-build image.
• More refined text formatting.
• Placeholder for characters with basic texturing.
• Showing and hiding of bubbles on visit.
• Periodically check for new tweets.
• Initial support for clicking through to twitter.com.

r06

• Predistrubuted panels.
• Automatic camera animation between panels.
• Refined camera animation to look ahead to next panel.
• Addition of ground plane with generative color and form.
• Addition of sky cylinder.

r05

• Added Tween.js for animating properties with easing.
• Planar distribution of tweet panels.
• Support for keyboard-controlled camera animation between panels.

r04

• Added Three.js for 3D environment with functions to setup, animate and render.
• New ttevents object for handling event callbacks.
• Simple panel animation using canvases as textures.

r03

• No new logic, organization release (wash dishes while you cook).
• CSS and JS split into files with new tweetopia control object.

r02

• This release creates canvas elements for the results, with logic to auto wrap and format the text.

r01

• This initial release polls the Twitter search API and displays the resulting tweets in divs.