Announcing Web2express Digest for Twitter
After several months of development, I’m happy to announce twitter digest web site is now available for the public. Web2express.org web site’s default home page is switched to this “Digest” web app.
Thanks to twitter’s api and the api team, the data feed for data mining is just wonderful. Web2express Digest is a real time system that takes in the feeds as they become available, and does some NLP analysis on the tweets using open tools like Open Calais and openNLP. The results are freely available on http://web2express.org/. Using this twiiter web app, you can spot daily hot topics and for each hot topic, quickly find the top contributing twitter users. I hope this real time information will
help users to understand the popular topics at any given moment and easily identify who to follow.
I have run the system internally since the beginning of this year. Tweets from millions of users have been analyzed. Each day, large amounts of public tweets pass through the system, from which hot topics are identified by semantic analysis and ranked by popularity. By comparing hot topics in current 24-hour period to the previous 24-hours, new topics are selected.
Please let me know if you have any comment.
AJ Chen