@PHP_CEO is a new corporate humor goldmine on Twitter. It’s very much like I am a developer, but, you know, from the CEO perspective.
Some of those tweets are nothing short of brilliant!
Tag: Twitter
How to Analyze Tweet Sentiments with PHP Machine Learning
Machine learning is rarely mentioned in the same sentence (or article, for that matter) with PHP, so each time this happens, I’m all ears. Here’s one that I came across recently – How to Analyze Tweet Sentiments with PHP Machine Learning.
Unlike many other “hello world” kind of examples, this article examines a real and quite common problem, which can be easily adopted to other similar problems – SPAM filtering, marketing segmentation, fraud detection, etc.
Botwiki – an open catalog of friendly, useful, artistic online bots
Botwiki is an impressive collection of bots for a variety of social networks and collaboration tools – Twitter, Slack, Tubmlr, Facebook and Messenger, YouTube, Reddit, Telegram, Snapchat, and more. Â You can browse all these by network or by category.
Here’s a random Twitter bot for you:
@holidaybot4000Â is a Twitter bot that tweets holidays around the world for the given day, typically together with an image of the country’s flag.
The Internet in real time
The Internet in real time provides a visual insight into how much activity is happening on the web every second.  Counts for things like Facebook likes, tweets, and YouTube video views are updated every second, all on one page.
It fascinates me every time to see stuff like this, because, apart from the human activity in itself, I have a glimpse of an understanding of how much technology work is happening behind the scenes.
How to change your Twitter username
I’m not considering a change of my Twitter account, as I’m using my surname all over the place and the only person it ever conflicts with is my brother. Â But I’ve heard of people trying to rename their accounts or re-brand their activity on Twitter, so I think is article – How to change your Twitter username – is useful.
Here’s a synopsis:
- create a new Twitter account with a @JunkName handle you don’t care about
- change your @OldName account to @NewName, keeping your followers and tweet history intact (releasing your @OldName into the wild)
- use the new Twitter account you made to quickly grab @OldName before anyone else has a chance to take it
One thing to note: Because of the way Twitter handles conversations, changing your username won’t retroactively change @mentions directed toward you from other people. This means that people you’ve conversed with will seemingly be talking to a ghost at @OldName instead of you at @NewName. Considering the “in-the-now” nature of Twitter this isn’t really a showstopper, just a mild inconvenience that’ll lessen over time.