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What is TwitPeek?
Every day hundreds of thousands of images are uploaded to TwitPic.com, at least one photo every second.
TwitPeek takes that stream of photo uploads and displays them as they come in via a live updating view.
Why would someone want to watch this? Well, beyond morbid curiosity over what people are uploading,
Twitter has become an excellent source for rapid croud-sourced news and headlines. When Michael Jackson
died, Twitter knew about it first. When protests started in Iran over a rigged election, Twitter filled
with photos and commentary on the riots in the streets.
TwitPeek is a service provided for easily monitoring the stream of life.
Why does the feed sometimes stop updating?
This is caused by a bug in TwitPic's public timeline RSS feed. Whenever a tweet is posted that contains spanish
characters such as Ã Ñ or Ô the feed becomes unreadable by an RSS parser. It is an issue
that TwitPic is aware of and should be corrected in the near future.
Will you add other photo sites that Twitter users frequent such as yFrog and Posterous?
If I can, I will. TwitPic's system is setup in such a way that makes this sort of feed very easy to put together.
The public feed is easy to parse, and TwitPic images are very easy to fetch and display. If the other services are also
as easy, I will add them to the stream.
I just uploaded an image to TwitPic and it didn't show up here. What gives?
You may have been a victim of the bug listed above, but you also may have simple not shown up in the public stream. TwitPeek
refreshes the stream every 15 seconds and receives 20 images at a time. If more then 20 images were uploaded in those
15 seconds, yours may have been bumped off the stream.
Who made this?
TwitPeek is developed by Jarvis Badgley (ChiperSoft Systems) and can be contacted
@ChiperSoft or through the email twitpeek at chipersoft.com