BCKCHNL (short for Back Channel) is a super simple Twitter search app. We built it with ’2nd Screens’ in mind so whether that’s monitoring a hash-tag you’re interested, or following a specific keyword. The app uses javascript to constantly refresh the feed with new results so past the initial search it’s essentially a passive experience of watching the tweets roll by. We wanted a simple clean interface that worked across big screens, projections, tablet devices and mobile devices alike.
BCKCHNL is one of our many internal projects to finally see the light of day and conceived and designed and built as a collaboration between Nation and our good buddy Al Monk
The app is still in alpha, so there may be the odd bug or two, but check it out BCKCH.NL and let us know what you think.
We’re trying to keep it as simple and as minimal as possible but there are a couple of things you can do to push the functionality if you’re so inclined:
• You can pull in multiple search terms by adding a comma (and no spaces) in between words.
• If you don’t even want to go to the homepage to search you can just add the search terms to the end of the url with a hash. So for example: http://bckch.nl/#happy,sad will show you a feed of tweets containing either the word ‘happy’ or the word ‘sad.’
• The size of the tweets in the stream are large by design, but can easily be adjusted in your browser by holding ctrl/cmd and pressing +/- on your keyboard.
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