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Faces of twitter

Created an application which downloads avatars from Twitter and detects faces in them. Nice to see how extremely well openCV face detection, using Haar features works.  I used the default "frontal face" haar xml file.  In a couple of hours I downloaded 100.000 avatars and in the screenshot below you see a generated image named "Faces of Twitter"

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Update 2011.06.11, some specs I can use:

  • Sort by location / geo
  • Sort by number of tweets, friends and statuses
  • Sort by number of followers
  • Sort by profile color
  • Sort by number of favourites
  • Sort by timezone
  • Sort by real name