A few days before World Cup 2010 started, I started noticing people calling out the results of upcoming games on Twitter.
I thought it would be interesting to run a game where fans make predictions using Twitter and a little application runs in the background to collect these tweets and tabulate success rates.
There are 3 prizes sponsored by Nike football thanks to a friend who helped obtained them.
Definitely not as profitable as betting on ladbrokes, but probably less of a hassle considering that it seems there isn’t an easy way for Singaporeans to deposit money into a ladbrokes account.
So, if you have a Twitter account, and love football, head down to football.onthereddot.com and participate by tweeting the results you expect.
Further notes:
Over the course of coding the site and the backend, I learned a few things about the Twitter API:
Going to update them over the course of the month as I tinker a little more with the scripts.
Back-end script to retrieve data from Twitter was written using python and:
1. The library tweepy as an interface to Twitter’s API.
2. SQLAlchemy to connect and deal with database stuff.
Front-end:
1. Built with Sinatra
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