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- What's this all about?
- Tweet Trumps makes a small deck of online "trading cards" based on your mutual friends on Twitter - those that follow you back.
- Who made it?
- Tom Scott (email, Twitter) and Dom Hodgson (email, Twitter). There's more like this Tom and Dom's web sites.
- You guys are funny, is there anyway I can see you in real life?
- Funny you should mention that. Dom and Tom are hosting the Big Geek Quiz in London at the start of June.
- I found a bug!
- First of all: it doesn't work for protected users, or those with less than 20 mutual friend relationships. Also, if Twitter's down - which it sometimes is - so are we. Sure those aren't the problem? Great - drop us an email and tell us everything you can about it. This was cobbled together in 24 hours, it's likely to be a bit broken in places.
- Any more information about it?
- At WarbleCamp, we had 24 hours to produce a Twitter hack. Rather than build something "serious" or "worthwhile" like a social graph analyser or text-to-speech app... we built a game.
Originally it was going to be half PHP and half JavaScript - but after 3 hours of Tom swearing at developing in PHP, we decided to switch to pure JavaScript. But since Dom hasn't that good at JavaScript, the development is mostly Tom's. (Dom has been cheerleading and playing with pretty pictures.) The card back is by David Bellot and released under the LGPL. - Why does it take so long to create a deck?
- We've made it as efficient as possible, but the game still needs to look up the details of some of your mutual friends, and that takes time — even with YQL powering the search.
- I disagree with the results of the game!
- That's very nice. Have a full refund.
- I'd like to invest in this unique application.
- Fantastic, best thing to do is contact Tom or Dom.
- I'd like to sue this not-so-unique application.
- Not so good, to be honest best to email Tom about these sorts of things.
- Doilies?
- Hell yes, doilies.
