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title: '#afterhours and #getoffmylawn inspire TweetScope, dynamic pages from Twitter searches'
date: '2009-03-11T00:15:09-07:00'
type: post
word_count: 288
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categories:
  - afterhours
  - getoffmylawn
  - OpenSource
  - Oregon
  - Portland
  - ReidBeels
  - Search
  - TweetScope
  - Twitter
tags:
  - afterhours
  - Bacon
  - cyborgcamp
  - getoffmylawn
  - 'open source'
  - 'reid beels'
  - Search
  - TweetScope
  - Twitter
---

# #afterhours and #getoffmylawn inspire TweetScope, dynamic pages from Twitter searches

[Reid Beels](http://twitter.com/reidab "Reid Beels") has transformed [Twitter](http://twitter.com "Twitter") searching into an art form—matching Twitter search results with thoughtful Web design that allows users to easily keep track of certain topics or [hashtags](http://tagal.us "Hashtags on tagalus") in an aesthetically pleasing setting.

What started with [\#afterhours](http://afterhours.reidab.com/ "afterhours") soon became an addiction, spawning [bacon](http://bacon.reidab.com/ "Bacon"), [electric blankets](http://electricblanket.reidab.com/ "Electric blanket"), [CyborgCamp](http://cyborgcamp.reidab.com/ "Cyborgcamp"), and of course my personal favorite [\#getoffmylawn](http://getoffmylawn.reidab.com/ "Getoffmylawn").

[![getoffmylawn](https://i0.wp.com/siliconflorist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/getoffmylawn.jpg?w=925)](http://getoffmylawn.reidab.com/ "getoffmylawn")

But Reid couldn’t keep all this to himself, so now [he’s open sourced those files as TweetScope](http://reidbeels.com/posts/2009/03/tweetscope/ "Introducing TweetScope"), allowing anyone with a few Ruby chops to pick up the code and begin creating dynamic pages of Twitter search results themselves:

> I’ve recently cleaned up and improved the code that powers these sites and am releasing it as an open-source project: [TweetScope](http://github.com/reidab/tweetscope). It’s all written in [Ruby](http://www.ruby-lang.org/) using the [Sinatra](http://sinatrarb.com/) web framework, both of which make me happy.
> 
> Setting up your own site with TweetScope is pretty simple.

The [files](http://github.com/reidab/tweetscope/tree/master "TweetScope files") and [documentation](http://wiki.github.com/reidab/tweetscope/easy-deployment-to-heroku "TweetScope documentation") are available on [Github](http://github.com/ "Github").

I’m looking forward to seeing what kinds of pages you create.

*(Hat tip [Steven Walling](http://twitter.com/StevenWalling/status/1309023124 "Steven Walling on TweetScope"))*