Oh so pretty Twitter Stats

With the recent surfacing of Damon Cortesi's Twitter Stats I experienced my first real case of Mac envy. I tried running the Perl script on my Debian box, but that crashed and burned pretty quickly since Twitter Stats actually require some OSX software.

In my rush to download and experiment I seem to have missed the part of the Twitter Stats post that mentions that it only runs on OSX.

So there I was, wanting some pretty stats without being able to generate them. Sure, I probably could have started massaging the script in various ways and try to generate my own rendition of the statistics, but I really didn't want to start doing that pretty late at night. In fact, all I probably had to do was to get the .csv file that Twitter Stats generates imported into Excel 2007 (My Debian box does not run X at all), and generate some spiffy graphics there. After all, thats what I did with my Spam Statistics post a while back.

Not feeling all that Pearl(y), I never do, and not wanting to hack away at this right now, I made a subtle call for help on Twitter itself. That worked, Damon himself surfaced and offered to run it for me. How nice is that? Not only is he stalking tracking people who mention his tool on Twitter, but he actively helps them out if they are unable to run it. That, and the fact that he runs a Gallery 2 installation, has to mean that this guy is really nice.

Anyway, here are my statistics. I'm sure no-one but me are interested in them, but I'll post them anyway.




Oh how pretty and useful. Come to think of it, this is probably the most useful Twitter has ever been to me. I ask for something and someone responds very quickly with a solution.

Disregard that it was related to Twitter, posted on Twitter about something concerning Twitter, thats just coincidental, no?

Posted by Christian Mohn aka h0bbel