{"id":1193,"date":"2015-03-15T14:58:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T14:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2018-01-02T17:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:02:50","slug":"meerkat-roulette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2015\/03\/meerkat-roulette\/","title":{"rendered":"Meerkat Roulette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the hubbub over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/meerkatapp.co\/\">Meerkat<\/a>\u00a0the past couple of\u00a0weeks, I thought for sure that someone would have beaten me to this already.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing, <a href=\"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/bin\/meerkat\/\">Meerkat Roulette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using Twitter&#8217;s search API to grab recent tweets containing &#8220;mrk.tv&#8221; and cycling through them randomly. You&#8217;ll probably see some repeats because of Twitter&#8217;s rate limiting, and also a lot of streams that are already over. I probably won&#8217;t fix that\u00a0because I&#8217;ve\u00a0already spent too much time on this stupid\u00a0idea.<\/p>\n<p>And since it&#8217;s <em>the breakout app!<\/em> at SXSW this year, I added\u00a0a filter to only include streams tagged #sxsw. This one\u00a0gets much more interesting at night :)<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the hubbub over\u00a0Meerkat\u00a0the past couple of\u00a0weeks, I thought for sure that someone would have beaten me to this already. Introducing, Meerkat Roulette. I&#8217;m using Twitter&#8217;s search API to grab recent tweets containing &#8220;mrk.tv&#8221; and cycling through them randomly. You&#8217;ll probably see some repeats because of Twitter&#8217;s rate limiting, and also a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"I can't believe this didn't exist already, so I built it: Meerkat Roulette","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[182],"tags":[173,174],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-meerkat","tag-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-jf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}