nonprofit pulse

What is this?

This is a mashup that tracks messages shared at Twitter ("tweets") by people working or related to the nonprofit area, worldwide.

Why was it created?

It was created to provide an instant glimpse of what is being discussed, shared or mentioned on Twitter, today by these users.

How those users were selected?

Based on the Non-Profit Pack available at the Twitter Pack Project.

I work at the nonprofit area too, but my user is not on the Non-Profit Pack. Can you add me to your list?

Sure, if you are already on Twitter, just send us a message to http://twitter.com/nonprofitpulse. We add users discretionally to keep the focus on the nonprofit sector.

How this works?

By combining Twitter´s API, Snapshots and some custom code.

Who is behind this?

Someone who had an idea and used part of its cognitive surplus to find out how it would work. And by the way, he also works on the nonprofit area.

How often is this updated?

Data is updated each minute and stored on a database. What you see in the frontpage are topics and links shared until this moment. Each night all data is cleared to start all over again.

Sometimes website snapshot only shows the Tinyurl/Snurl/Twurl webpage and not the redirected page?

That´s a Snap thing but you can mouseover again or simply click the link to see the page behind the shortened url.

Are all words considered for the word cloud?

Not all of them. We leave out some adjectives, adverbs and numbers to focus on nouns and verbs, thus try to make the cloud mean something. We based the initial list on TweetCloud's stop words list and then added additional words in english and spanish. We constantly update our current list, so in case you have a suggestion please tweet us.