Blurrt were asked by Twitter to help them visualise the conversation around the EU referendum for ITV. Several of our live data visuals were shown on live TV throughout the night.
I was the onsite tech, responsible for making sure everything went smoothly.
Twitter's @robowers analyses social media conversations about the late Jo Cox MP #EUref https://t.co/U239Ulw9wF
— ITV News (@itvnews) June 23, 2016
No let-up in Twitter activity as results pour in #EUref https://t.co/K7OLMXZrgp
— ITV News (@itvnews) June 24, 2016
I don’t think you can fully appreciate continuous integration until you’ve had to manually patch a server that is being used on live TV.