Jetwick Twitter Search
September 6, 2010
Peter Karich on DZone “Twitter Search Jetwick – Powered by Wicket and Solr,” where he narrates his experiences with creation of ‘Jetwick’ provides some insight into the steps required to create a Twitter search. He noted, “From a quick-start project to production many if not all things can change.”
The article recounts the task to create a similar-user finding service ‘Jetwick’ on Twitter based on their tweeted content, whose prototype was created only within a week. It needed some extra tweaking and switching to Solr for facets, which was done in a couple of hours. However, user trials highlighted need of changes in the layout that was achieved by switching to another web UI, taking a couple of days. Then, the rectification process of a problem with Db4 took about a week, finally needing to switch to Hibernate that took another couple of weeks. However, as Twitter released a similar service, the base concept of Jetwick had to be changed from user-search to a regular tweet search. The final production changed considerably. We found this a useful case example.
Leena Singh, September 6, 2010
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