Zeitgeist - the most shared BBC links on Twitter
Post categories: innovation, social
| 08:58 UK time, Thursday, 15 July 2010
Zeitgeist is a prototype developed by our colleagues in BBC Research and Development.
It's aim:
...to highlight the most shared BBC webpages on Twitter, a digest to link people to the hottest BBC pages
On the R&D blog Theo Jones explains more:
We use the Twitter streaming API to access the Gardenhose sample stream, which provides a subset of the full Twitter message stream, at a rate of about 100 messages per second and to track "BBC" as a keyword. These messages are then fed into a pipeline of processes written in Ruby connected by queues provided by RabbitMQ, a fast and reliable messaging server.
Read more and comment at the BBC Research and Development blog.
Nick Reynolds is Social Media Executive, BBC Online
