Working on it... please be patient... fetching data now...
Pipes is processing the Twitter feed...
I think...
It should be finding user details related to this people using this hashtag...
Which is why it's taking some time...
Especially if there are lots of hashtaggers...
Nearly there...
Any second now...
Come on Yahoo Pipes... I'm waiting...
Hmmm...
Maybe you should reduce the mintweets parametr in the URL...?
Maybe you should reduce the maxfolloers parameter...?
Or failing that, try another hashtag al together...?
Disclaimer
You may notice that not everyone you know has used the hashtag appears in the lists above and below. This is because the size of the hashtag community is limited in three ways:
- hashtag use sample size: for this proof of concept, the hashtag community analysis is based on a Twitter search that grabs the 500 most recent uses of the declard hashtag. If this were a production tool, it would pull the complete archive of hashtag use from one of the twitter archiving services. if you want that feature, build it yourself...;-)
- minimum number of tweets: an optional parameter in the URI identifies the minimum number of hashtagged tweets that a user must have sent in the sample to be considered a member of the community. By setting this numbr large, it allows you to just see the heaviest hashtagger in the community, or filter out people who maybe just use the hashtag once in a retweet. (I think there's a bug in the code - if you set this mintweets paramter to 2, the user must have hashtagged at least 3 times. i.e. one more. 10 is 11.) If the pipe is return nothing, it may be that no single individuals have been using the hashtag heavily enough recently: reduce the value of this parameter and try again.
- Max community size: an 'issue' in the Twitter search API means I need to call the Twitter API once for every person in the community. This overhead can break the pipework, so the community size can be limited arbitrarily. If th pipe is rturning nothing, reduce the value of this parameter and try again. Use low min-tweets and low max-users to get the pipe working, then start tuning....:-)
The URI pattern is:
http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/twitterMyhashtagNet.php?q=YourTwitterScreenName&h=hashtag&mintweets=2&maxusers=99
For further details, as well as for information about how the
Numbers are calculated, see
Personal Twitter Networks in Hashtag Communities