Twitterverse Quartz Composer

factory joe is the center of my galaxy as well

Now that's just cool.

is there a way to download this?

Yeah, I just get the black screen too. Perhaps it's because I only have the iPhone SDK installed.

Nice

Leave it running for a while, it'll download your contacts. and it'll work.

I left it running overnight. It was a black screen when I went to bed. Eight hours later it was still the same. *shrug*

Hey everyone, it's easy to make this a screensaver (not so easy getting it to work correctly). Just put "The Twitterverse.qtz" into:

~/Library/Screen Savers

Then when you open your preferences and select screen savers, look at the bottom under "others" and you'll see "The Twitterverse" as an option.

twitter.com/whurley

doesn't work for me either. i got it to show just my face [unh!] by unchecking the local option.

www.twitter.com/sean808080

Awesome stuff, looking forward to try it out!

Here's the error dump from Quartz Composer:

15:31:42.797 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > Downloading xml data from URL "http://AxsDeny:XXXXXXXX@twitter.com"
15:31:42.805 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > Downloading xml data from URL "?since=Mon%252C+12+May+2008+15%253A31%253A42+GMT-0400 -- file://localhost/Users/axsdeny/Library/Screen%20Savers/"
15:31:42.806 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > Failed downloading url "file://localhost/Users/axsdeny/Library/Screen%20Savers/?since=Mon%252C+12+May+2008+15%253A31%253A42+GMT-0400" with error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1101 UserInfo=0x18175b40 "file is directory"
15:32:00.262 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > Done parsing XML from URL "http://AxsDeny:XXXXXXXX@twitter.com"
15:32:00.269 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > XML downloaded
15:32:00.270 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > Downloading xml data from URL "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml"
15:32:00.277 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > Downloading xml data from URL "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml"
15:32:00.482 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > Done parsing XML from URL "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml"
15:32:00.508 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > XML downloaded
15:32:00.950 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > Done parsing XML from URL "http://twitter.com/statuses/friends.xml"
15:32:00.962 ["XML Downloader" @ "XML Download"] > XML downloaded
15:32:00.963 ["JavaScript - Image Loader" @ "Friend Images"] > TypeError: Undefined value
15:32:00.963 ["JavaScript - Image Loader" @ "Friend Images"] > Execution failed at time 18.223
15:32:00.964 ["Friend Images" @ "Twitter Data"] > Execution failed at time 18.223
15:32:00.965 ["Twitter Data" @ "Macro Patch"] > Execution failed at time 18.223
15:32:00.986 ["Macro Patch" @ "(null)"] > Execution failed at time 18.223

ouch lost in space ;-)

Unfortunately it seems to be broken, or unreliable, whose fault? Not really sure : (

So, did anyone figure out how to make it work? It's still cool and since there's TwitSaver for Windows and no Mac version, it would be great to get this online.

twitocalypse bug?

anyone got it working ? I'dlove that but don't have the time to code another one... probably a twitter API update... I got this error:
Failed downloading url "file://localhost/Users/nico/Desktop/The%20Twitterverse/?since=jeu.%252C+16+juil.+2009+10%253A47%253A39+GMT+0200" with error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1101 UserInfo=0x1d87cd70 "file is directory"

It has to do with the XML importer Patch in Quartz Composer.

Below is the exact explanation that Apple gives when mousing over the patch in the library inspector . . .

*****Start Explanation*****

XML Importer:
Downloads and parses XML from a specified URL or file path.

The file path is considered absolute if starting with '/', relative to the current user directory if starting with '~', or otherwise relative to the location of the Quartz composition file if available.

The URL must use one of the allowed protocols: file, http or ftp.

The download starts when the "Update Signal" input is set to True. When the download and parsing are finished, the "Done Signal" output is temporarily set to True and the XML is made available as a structure on the "Parsed XML" output.

*****End Explanation*****

My log file when running a test of the twitterverse.qtz composition shows that the XML Importer patch is currently set to local and pointing not to a URL but the directory file://

------ > (Represent the flow of the log file I did this so it didn't look Chinese to some individuals)

*****Start Log*****

===== Log Started on 2009-08-31 09:55:07 -0500 =====

2009-08-31 09:55:08.491 QCPlayer[2561:4c0b] *** Message from :

------ >

Failed downloading url

------ >

"file://localhost/Developer/Library/Qua rtz%20Composer/Examples/Patches/The%20Twitter verse/?since=Mon%252C+31+Aug+2009+09%253A55%2 53A08+GMT-0500"

------ >

with error: Error Domain=NSURLErrorDomain Code=-1101 UserInfo=0x11414ac30

------ >

"file is directory"

------ >

Underlying Error=(Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1101 UserInfo=0x114365860 "file is directory")

*****End Log*****

To fix this I believe one will have to go into Xcode and manually update the URL to the correct Twitter API call

(ergo: the URL that Twitter provides in its developer tools so an application such as twitterverse.qtz can use to log with.)

Isn't this broken because Twitter has changed its authentication method? When I manually go to the API call as defined in the TweetVerse.qtz XML Importer, "http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml", it asks me for a login and password and then I get the error message "Basic authentication is not supported"