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

Twitterfall has a huge feature list and there are many actions that can't be done on other clients.

For popular trends, Twitter is queried from the Twitterfall server, and results are streamed directly to you. This means that Twitterfall is nicer for commonly used terms than other clients.

Twitterfall was written by x5315 and Jalada. The name was coined by Chris Northwood.

Twitterfall is a collection of Erlang, JQuery, Google Maps and Language APIs, Comet Push Technology and Twitter.

We have created these site specific browsers. Currently, this is only available on the Mac due to available software.

• Twitterfall For Mac
  

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

Why do I not show up in Twitterfall?

This is an issue with the Twitter search system. There is no filtering or blocking of users done within Twitterfall. Twitter has an alternative support forum regarding the issue.

Why can't I log in to Twitterfall?

All Logins are forwarded to Twitter for authentication. Nearly all issues with Twitterfall are due to communication issues with Twitter (Failwhales, the like). Often there's nothing we can do to help, just keep trying, eventually it'll work.

Why am I getting lag before seeing tweets?

For custom searches, we look for new tweets every 15 seconds. If there is any more lag than this, then it is caused by Twitter's Search system.
For trending searches, we look for new tweets as much as every 10 seconds. Once again, if there is more lag than this, then it is caused by Twitter's Search system.

One issue may be that you have a lot of tweets queued up. Since we only show you a tweet every 2 seconds by default, if you have received 15 tweets, it'll take 30 seconds to show you all. 30 seconds is long enough for 2 more searches to occur.
The solution is to speed up the displaying using the Speed setting on the right hand side, or to empty to the queue, by using Empty Queue at the top of the page.

For basic Twitter website widgets, we suggest using Twitter's official widgets. If you're looking for more functionality, please email droplet@twitterfall.com.