For my final project in the 466 class, I'm going to build a website similar to the website http://www.whendidyoujointwitter.com/. However, my website will display interesting fact about your Twitter account. Here are some of the fact I'm planning to include in the website:
- How many fake people "bots" follow you.
- Your average tweets per day.- The words most often used.
- And more to come if time permits.
I know many of you may be questioning how I'm going to figure out, what constitutes a real person vs. a fake person that follows you. Since, the time constraint that I have to finish the project on time, I will use a basic algorithm where it will look the frequency of daily tweets, plus the frequency between tweets to figure out if a real person is actually writing the tweets.
The purpose of this final project is to gain more in depth knowledge of the Twitter API and use that to create an interesting and fun website that shows interesting facts about each Twitter account. For now, I'm going to host the website on UWT repos servers. If I see any potential from this project, I might consider getting hosting and buy a domain. I will put some ads in the website so, that hopefully it pays for the hosting.
As for the technical part of the project, for now, I'm just going to use JavaScript. The reason I'm using JavaScript is that since it is a client-side language, and therefore I do not have to worry if the servers at school support it. If I find a language that is server-side and is supported by repos servers, I'll consider using it. Hopefully, I can use Python.
