maurice.im

Traffic generated from Twitter

I was wondering how much traffic one Twitter post would generate,
and more importantly, I was wondering *who* would visit.. So I simply
created a text file, tweeted it and checked the access logs.

http://twitter.com/mauriez/statuses/2929340532

Message posted at 30/Jul/2009:14:43:02 +0200
(local time on box where I checked the logs)

Access log shows this:
66.249.68.198 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:48 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

174.129.91.213 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:57 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Python-urllib/2.5"

91.121.123.191 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:57 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051128 SUSE/1.5-0.1 Firefox/1.5"

75.101.156.169 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:43:59 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "AideRSS 2.0 (postrank.com)"

174.129.89.199 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:08 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Python-urllib/2.5"

80.46.93.186 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:10 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "http://twitter.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.12) Gecko/2009070611 Firefox/3.0.12"

89.151.84.35 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:10 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot"

79.99.6.106 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:11 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "Twingly Recon"

174.129.111.78 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:11 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "PycURL/7.18.2"

89.151.84.35 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:12 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot"

208.74.66.43 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:13 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.0" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Butterfly/1.0; +http://labs.topsy.com/butterfly.html) Gecko/2009032608 Firefox/3.0.8"

91.121.89.155 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:22 +0200] "HEAD /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" - - "-" "PycURL/7.19.3"

75.101.196.118 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:27 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Twitturly / v0.6"

91.121.53.183 - - [30/Jul/2009:14:44:56 +0200] "GET /tt.txt HTTP/1.1" "-" 61 61 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2009011817 Gentoo Firefox/3.0.5"

I have cut out the requests that were not for tt.txt .. but its amazing
how many automated hits you get after a simple post!

Old! Resolving shortened URLs

Sometimes you just think of something, start it, and then discover that others have been doing the same. My latest example of this is resolvurl.com.

As I was thinking about shortening URLs and the fact that there quite some services out there, I started wondering about “the other way around”. How to resolve URLs for what they really are.

Without proper investigation (who wants to investigate when feeling all fired up on an idea) I started working on that and then bumped into longurlplease.com. Exactly what I wanted to do! :)

Instead of re-inventing the wheel Ill utilize the longurlplease API. Gives me more time to think of something fun to put around it. .. Probably only to find out someone else already did :)

JQuery.ajax() and associative arrays

When in need of passing an associative array using JQuery’s Ajax function, declare the array as:

var $a = new Object();

instead of:

var $a = new Array();

Works lots better ;)