{"id":745,"date":"2014-08-06T02:15:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T02:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2014-08-06T02:15:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T02:15:34","slug":"the-twitter-fountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/2014\/08\/the-twitter-fountain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Twitter Fountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I built a Twitter Fountain a few months ago for <a href=\"http:\/\/medtechboston.medstro.com\/healthcares-grand-hackfest-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\">MIT Hacking Medicine&#8217;s Grand Hackfest<\/a>. As an organizer for the event, I was sad that I wouldn&#8217;t get to build stuff <em>at<\/em> the event\u00a0so I decided to build\u00a0<em>for<\/em> the event instead. The goal was to encourage more people to tweet. The approach I took was to make each virtual tweet manifest itself in the physical world\u00a0by making a drop of water fall into a bucket every time someone tweeted with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=grandhack&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">#grandhack<\/a> hashtag. Tweeting became a\u00a0collective, group goal. Everyone joined forces to fill the entire bucket with tweets over the course of the weekend. Check out the demo video below! As well as my favorite reaction video! \u00a0(An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instructables<\/a> tutorial is coming soon)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Twitter Fountain\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4U3U9uxgx8c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My favorite reaction video \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#grandhack fountain\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VxD4VtqzEWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built a Twitter Fountain a few months ago for MIT Hacking Medicine&#8217;s Grand Hackfest. As an organizer for the event, I was sad that I wouldn&#8217;t get to build stuff at the event\u00a0so I decided to build\u00a0for the event instead. The goal was to encourage more people to tweet. The approach I took was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/DSC_9102.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":749,"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linacolucci.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}