This was a demo and presentation of Twibitz given at the Fox Valley Computing Professionals Nov. meeting. The audience was largely technical, and this was an overview of the application and the technologies used to build the app.

1. Fox Valley Computing Professionals - 11/12/13 #fvcp

2. Overview
• Why Twibitz Exists
• Technology Overview
• UI Elements
• 3rd Party APIs
• Optimization
• Challenges
• Demo
• Questions?

3. Why Twibitz Exists
Photo Courtesy of GoldTowner.com
But first… A lesson in Gold Mining

4. (No Chin Beards Required)

5. Lots of Dirt = $$$
• 20-30 Cubic Yards of dirt per Hour
• .025 oz of gold per yard
• Gold about $1,300 per Ounce
• 30 Yards of dirt = ¾ oz Gold
• ¾ oz Gold = $975
• 1 Yard of dirt produces $32.50
(You need a lot of dirt)

6. Purpose of a Wash Plant:
• Filters out large rocks
• Washes gold off rocks
• Separates gold flakes
from dirt
• Produces a mix of gold
and fine black sand

7. Twibitz

8. This… is a Rock

9. How Twibitz Shows You This Is a Rock

10. Technology Overview
• ASP.Net MVC 4.0
• C#
• MS SQL Server
• Entity Framework
• Windows Azure
• Turnstone Twitter API Library

11. UI Elements
• Bootstrap 2.0
• Google Charts
• jQCloud
• Font Awesome

12. Twitter Client Library
• Turnstone Twitter API Library (C#)

13. 3rd Party APIs
• Social Scoring:
• MailChimp (Mailing list signup)
• SendGrid (Notifications)
LambdaLabs Facial Recognition

14. Optimization
• Task Parallel Library (.Net)
1. Get Twitter Profile
2. Begin 3rd Party API Tasks
3. Get & Analyze Tweets
4. Get 3rd Party Task Results
5. Generate Report
Avg. Results (2,000 Tweets):
9.8 seconds

15. Challenges
• Twitter API 1.1 Changes
• Rate Limiting
• Abandoned 3rd Party Twitter API
Clients (TweetSharp, Twitterizer)
• OAuth
(C# UrlEncode is lower case, Twitter API expects
uppercase)

16. Demo

17. Questions?

18. Links
http://www.twibitz.com
https://dev.twitter.com/
http://getbootstrap.com/
https://developers.google.com/chart/
https://github.com/lucaong/jQCloud
http://fontawesome.io/
http://klout.com/s/developers/home
https://developer.peoplebrowsr.com/kred
https://developers.peerindex.com/
http://sendgrid.com/
http://apidocs.mailchimp.com/
https://github.com/mikejhale/turnstone (coming soon)