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Continuing a trend on the non-evilness of optimization, this article discusses some methods of improving performance in QueryPath.

Early this week, a Twitter analysis tool called Reduncery was launched by a friend of mine. Reduncery calculates how much of a "redunce" a particular user is -- that is, what percentage of a user's tweets are retweets (RT). It can also calculate how ineffective it is for one person to retweet another. In this case, it calculates the overlap in the followers of the original tweeter with the followers of the retweeter. In what follows, we will look at the ways Reduncery optimizes QueryPath to keep page load times down.

Ever get irritated by reading the same tweet multiple times, retweeted by the same old people? Ever wondered how effective re-tweeting is? Are new people really reading the tweet, or are the same people just being notified multiple times? You can now find out for sure with Reduncery.

Reduncery

Reduncery was built on QueryPath and Drupal. In a future blog, I'll tell you about some of the the performance optimizations Reduncery uses to speed up searches of 200k+ users.

Here's a screencast walk-through of the TweetyPants intelligence analyzer.

Enter a user's screen name and TweetyPants does an analysis of recent tweets by that user. It then rates the user's style, smarts, and shizzle. No, it doesn't do anything useful.

Are your Twitter friends smarty-pantses? Today I am releasing TweetyPants, a tool that uses QueryPath, OpenAmplify, and Twitter to evaluate a user's posts for three things:

• Style: The more verbose and flowery one's prose is, the higher the score.
• Shizzle: The more slang a post has, the higher the score.
• Smarts: The more educated one's tweets are, the higher the score.

Along with scoring a Twitter account against these three categories, TweetyPants also tells you what that person has been recently tweeting about.

So enter the name of a Twitter friend and see how smart your friends are.
TweetyPants

Today I uploaded a new version of Twitterpated to the QueryPath.org server. This new version is smaller in (network) size, and has a few minor bug fixes. Also released along with it is TweetStock. TweetStock is a Twitter search client for an iPhone. It's actually a very simple overlay on the official Twitter search page. Check it out at http://querypath.org/tweetstock

Both of these technologies are built on the QueryPath library (http://querypath.org).