Music video jukebox powered by Tweets

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This is my first Twitter app built with Rails 2.3 and Twitter's search API. Any suggestions or critiques is appreciated. Thanks!

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Pretty cool. Back in 2004 I built about the same thing. It accepted requests from IRC and a web site and streamed MP3s through Icecast (YouTube did not exist).

I remember spending several days to build a smart algorithm to pick songs when the queue was empty. For the 9 months of the site's existence the queue was not empty once and my work was in vain.

Nice, there are so many resources for what people are listening to right now that I'm sure that algorithm would be easier if you were to do it again now. In this case, when the queue is empty it uses search.twitter to find some music that people are currently listening to. (I'm the developer)

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