In 2009 Jalada spent 2 hours building a website that would ultimately end up shaping his entire career. In this episode of Octal FM we tell you the story of that website.
what's the site that shows a live stream of tweets flowing down the page?
— Kevin Rose ⛩ (@kevinrose) January 25, 2009
that's it, http://twitterfall.com/ , thx @jalada (dev), how can I add search.twitter syntax, like near:"san francisco" within:15mi ?
— Kevin Rose ⛩ (@kevinrose) January 25, 2009
- Twitterfall on Wikipedia
- Twitterfall co-founder Tom Brearley on Twitter
- Twitterfall makes it onto Telegraph newsroom screens

- Twitterfall: a Google for the Twitterverse
- Coverage from the Guardian about The Telegraph’s embedded Twitterfall
- Coverage in our university newspaper
- Fox’s Fringe Twitter-Feed Overlay: Clever or a Mistake?
- ITV taps into social media for FA Cup Final
- Penny Arcade comic about Vinepeek
- Where Jalada works now
- Anecdote.fm, podcast from Jack Dearlove