Observatory of trends in software related microblogs,” in ASE (Tool Paper), also available at: http://research.larc.smu.edu.sg/papers/observatory.pdf

Microblogging has recently become a popular means to dis-seminate information among millions of people. Interest-ingly, software developers also use microblog to communi-cate with one another. Different from traditional media, microblog users tend to focus on recency and informality of content. Many tweet contents are relatively more per-sonal and opinionated, compared to that of traditional news report. Thus, by analyzing microblogs, one could get the up-to-date information about what people are interested in or feel toward a particular topic. In this paper, we describe our microblog observatory that aggregates more than 70,000 Twitter feeds, captures software-related tweets, and com-putes trends from across topics and time points. Finally, we present the results to the end users via a web interface available a