Tag: Twitter
Following Musk’s Acquisition Of Twitter, An Open Source Alternative Is Exploding
Although we don't yet know what Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter means for the platform, one Twitter alternative is already thriving as a result...
Elon Musk’s Plan To Open Source The Twitter Algorithm Has Flaws
Elon Musk made his aspirations for Twitter obvious just hours after Twitter said it had accepted Elon Musk's takeover offer. Musk listed the major...
Twitter To Fund Development of Open Source Social Media Standard
The project is called Bluesky and may take years to take its final shape
An ideal candidate to join the team for the...
Global Tech Giants Form Presto Foundation to Tackle Distributed Data Processing...
The Foundation aims to make the database search engine "the fastest and most reliable SQL engine for massively distributed data processing.”
Presto’s architecture...
Explore Twitter Data Using R
As of August 2017, Twitter had 328 million active users, with 500 million tweets being sent every day. Let’s look at how the open...
Twitter open sources its stream processing engine Heron
Twitter has released the code of Heron, a stream-processing engine that succeeded Apache Storm. Licensed under Apache v2.0, the distributed stream computation system has...
Analyse and gather Twitter data using Apache Flume
Apache Flume is a service for streaming logs into Hadoop. It is a distributed and reliable service for efficiently collecting, aggregating and moving large...
Android malware uses Twitter to stealthily infect devices
A new Android malware has emerged that leverages Twitter accounts to infect devices. Called Android/Twitoor, the malware is active since July this year and...
Ubuntu 12.04 Review: An LTS Done More or Less Precisely
Ubuntu 12.04 is the fourth LTS release from Canonical that came out about a month back, and the first LTS with the revamped user...
Group Micro-blogging Using WordPress
To all the Net savvy social animals out there with a Twitter, Facebook, G+ and a whole lot of StumbleUpon accounts, here is a...
