Twitterfall is a Twitter client specialising in real-time tweet searches. New tweets fall into the page.

Twitterfall was written by Tom Brearley and David Somers. The name was coined by Chris Northwood.

Twitterfall is built on Go, Javascript, HTML5 and hosted by nginx running on a Linode server.

Twitterfall continues to be maintained by Protane (UK) Ltd.

Here are some of the questions we're often asked about Twitterfall.

Why do I not show up in Twitterfall?

We show every tweet that Twitter returns for a given search, there is no filtering or blocking of users done by us. Check to see if your tweets show up on twitter.com and if they don't then you should contact Twitter.

Why can't I log in to Twitterfall?

This is usually due to a problem with Twitter. If you can't log in to Twitterfall for an extended period of time then contact us.

Why am I getting lag before seeing tweets?

You might have too many searches which causes Twitterfall to throttle requests to Twitter. At most, Twitterfall will check for new tweets every 15 seconds.