Waking and Sleeping Globe
Consumer and social
live tweet visualisation
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
2 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.18.
Execution: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Cool idea and fun to watch
From 3 comments
I like this a lot
HuangYuSan on HNThis actually reminds me of the early days of twitter, when people would do this more often in my feed. Don't really see it anymore, but I guess it still happens in more niche…
luxurytent on HNThat’s awesome. I’m on mobile and can’t tell what tech you’re using but I bet you can just calculate day night geometries and draw them onto a Leaflet or OpenLayers map. I can’t…
Waterluvian on HN
Objections
Doesn't work in Firefox or with adblockers enabled
From 3 comments
hmmm, doesn't seem to work in firefox for me? Realy cool though!
luisfmh on HNNote - you may need to disable your adblocker for this site to function
politelemon on HNAt least one of the built in uBlock lists (I have almost all enabled, probably one of the anti social media ones) blocks js files with the name "tweets.js".
cmeacham98 on HN
WebGL globe lacks a fallback for some devices
From 1 comment
Please stop using WebGL without a fallback... Plenty of devices don't support it or immediately crash...
londons_explore on HN
Missing some languages such as Greek; Japanese tweets look like official accounts
From 2 comments
Dude, add the Greek versions of good morning and goodnight. I was wondering why my country was empty in a vast field of good mornings.
OhHiMarkos on HNI don't know about other language, but wow the term for Japanese is so formal it's likely those are just tweets from brand/official account.
innocenat on HN
Requests
Add a 2D map version
From 1 comment
I love the idea. I think it would be a really cool idea for some IoT picture frame. I think a 2D map would be more effective.
Waterluvian on HN
Add a local time zone overlay
From 1 comment
Some kind of local time zone vertical line overlay option might be a nice addition. Why I thought about this: I'm using a ~12 year old monitor that occasionally has a broken…
rectangleboy on HN
Make it remixable for other topics
From 1 comment
If you'd like to make it show tweets on different topics you can 'remix' it here https://glitch.com/edit/#!/wakingandsleeping-globe . In app.js you just need to change the…
tomglynch on HN
Questions
Does it use the Twitter API and is access easy to get
From 1 comment
@OmarShehata - do you use the Twitter API to get this data? Is it a simple process to get access?
fatruchir on HN
Alternatives named
Wikipedia edits globe by umaar
From 1 comment
Related: WebGL globe showing live Wikipedia edits https://umaar.com/globe/
umaar on HN
alltheminutes time-based tweet site
From 1 comment
Another interesting twitter related project: http://alltheminutes.com/
atulvi on HN