Actionscript:
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[SWF(width = 800, height=600, frameRate=15)]
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var littleTxt:TextField = TextField(addChild(new TextField()));
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with (littleTxt){
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defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat("_sans", 10);
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width = stage.stageWidth-20;
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height = stage.stageHeight-20;
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multiline = true;
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wordWrap = true;
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text ="";
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textColor = 0x444444;
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selectable = false;
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x = y = 10;
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}
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var txt:TextField = TextField(addChild(new TextField()));
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with (txt){
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defaultTextFormat = new TextFormat("_sans", 90);
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autoSize = "center";
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x = 0
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y = stage.stageHeight / 2 - 61
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width = stage.stageWidth;
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selectable = false;
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text = "loading";
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}
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var selectWords:Array = [];
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addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onLoop);
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function onLoop(evt:Event):void {
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if (selectWords.length> 0){
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var word:String = selectWords[int(Math.random() * selectWords.length)];
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txt.text = word;
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littleTxt.appendText(word+" ");
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}
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}
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var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
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var req:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://search.twitter.com/search.atom");
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var vars:URLVariables = new URLVariables();
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vars.q = "i want";
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// results per page
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vars.rpp = "50";
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vars.page = 1;
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vars.lang = "en";
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req.data = vars;
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req.method = URLRequestMethod.POST;
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loader.load(req);
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loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);
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function onLoaded(evt:Event):void{
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var searchData:XML = new XML(loader.data);
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var atom:Namespace = searchData.namespace("");
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default xml namespace = atom;
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var titles:String = "";
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for each(var entry:XML in searchData.entry){
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titles += entry.title.toString();
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}
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var index:int = 0;
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var words:Array = titles.split(" ");
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for (var i:int = 0; i<words.length; i++){
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// exclude a few things
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if (words[i].match(/RT|\@|\#|http/g).length == 0){
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selectWords[index++] = words[i];
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}
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}
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}
This snippet searches twitter for the phrase "I want" and then displays the results randomly word by word in a somewhat hypnotic way.
