Our product was ported and re-skinned inside Twitter's analytics offerings.

On the technology side a lot of our core tech is being used across different teams here. Storm is being used to help power applications for analytics, revenue, content discovery, anti-spam, search and more.

Also we're currently hiring engineers to work specifically on that technology so feel free to reach out to any of us from the BackType crew to get involved.

Cool, great to see you're making use of EDB. Would love to hear more about how you're using, how the transition was, etc. mm@backtype.com.

Fixed.

Yep... it works now. Thanks.

It's there now. Had to make some changes to distribute some of the work.

Thanks a lot. Now if you could just kill off everyone ahead of me, it could save me a lot of work. :)

This is a neat thing. More insight would always be good (source up or anything?) Perhaps it can help motivate me to step my game up a bit more.

Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.

Seems like it's working after all just takes >5 minutes ATM.

How is this score calculated?

The score's based on your use of GitHub, who follows you and your projects, as well as (this is where BackType comes in) how much they are shared on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News, etc.

didn't load for me; you should throw up an example screenshot of what the score looks like. have you thought about making an embeddable score widget (similar to what ohloh has) that you could put on a blog?

Here's an example (or you can click usernames on the frontpage): http://cl.ly/232U2o2t0C2y3V0J0r10

This makes me curious is there any reason why the users couldn't provide the data themselves or poll the API via javascript?

Since we're using BackType as well to calculate the score, it was easier to do both requests server-side. We pre-ran a long list of popular users and all of their followers, but guess we didn't reach enough people :(

If you leave the tab open, it will finish.

We use Python for all our data collecting, general scripting, and some of our stream processing (though stream processing is moving to a more generalized framework that is Java/Clojure based).

Also, our underlying API (that serves results to all our products/API/etc) is a collection of Python servers written with Twisted and Thrift.

Thanks! If you're in the city come by the Lisp/Clojure meetup tonight — we're talking about Clojure at BackType, the tools we've open sourced and demoing our new stream processing framework.

Awesome! Will try to stop by :-)

Here's a really short slide deck with some details on how it fits into our workflow at BackType: http://www.slideshare.net/michaelmontano/designing-for-massi...

Will have lots more on our tech blog next week.

Wow, that is sketchy. That's on Twitter's end, something must have broke recently (today) because I've never seen that before on any of their auth pages. (mike from backtype)

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