DATATOY - turns tweets into charts
The twitter datatoy has a simple objective - to turn your tweets into charts. For more detail and the latest updates visit the Blog.
The Idea
I twitter quite a lot. Amongst the trivia I tweet a lot of potentially useful information. If I twitter my lunch (as I often do) wouldn't it be cool to be able to chart and graph that information? Find out if I eat too much chicken? Of course it would!
That's what datatoy does.
We are pretty early in the life of datatoy, things are changing regularly with new features and better visualisations. All tracked in the blog.
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The tweet formats
Until the markupless tweet eater is working, you need to clutter your tweets a little. If that's not for you then just follow datatoy on twitter and we'll tell you when they disappear.
*lunch tuna sandwich
This will create a "lunch" collecton and mark todays lunch as a tuna sandwich.
*lunch tuna sandwich !low fat mayo tho
This will also add a note about low fat mayo.
*lunch 3 tuna sandwich !full fat mayo too
If you got greedy we have that covered too.
*bike ?total
Get a quick reminder of your total mileage, number of snacks, whatever...
*bike ?latest
Get a quick reminder of the details of your latest entry
*bike ?hide
Stop your bike collection appearing on your profile
yesterday *bike 10km
NEW! As you would expect - logs this to yesterday instead of today
You view your charts at
datatoy.net/user/your_twitter_name
DM / @datatoy or not?
These patterns work just as well when you start your message with @datatoy or d datatoy . That allows you to hide your tweets from your other followers - should you wish to.