Twitterfall
A website developed by two York University students is transforming the way people use the micro-blogging site Twitter.
A website developed by two students from the University of York is transforming the way people use the micro-blogging site Twitter.
Thousands of people use Twitter everyday to post news, views and information online in short messages known as tweets.
David Somers and Tom Brearley have developed Twitterfall, a website that allows users to filter that stream of information and find people writing about topics they are interested in.
The second-year students in the Department of Computer Science launched Twitterfall earlier this year and the website has become hugely popular, attracting tens of thousands of users.
Somers said: 'The success of Twitterfall has taken us completely by surprise but we are really pleased that it has received such a positive response in such a short space of time. We are now working with a major media company to see how it might use Twitterfall as part of its own websites.'
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