Q. What is DrunkenTweets? 
A. A service which aggregates tweets by people who are either drunk, in the process of getting drunk, or waking up with a hangover the next day.
Q. How long did it take to build?
A. About ten minutes - most of which was getting pissed off with FTP software. The logo took another ten minutes (thanks Leeky!). And then I spent another five minutes making the CSS look presentable. I did it in the closing minutes of Open Hack London, having spent the previous day faffing around with triplestores, board games and nattering on about SPARQL.
Q. Why is that useful?
A. It's not. But it's fun.
Q. So, when is it going to be online?
A. Not for some time. I'm (a) busy with exams for the next three to four weeks and (b) I'm a bit of a perfectionist and need to turn it from being a hack into being an actual useful web service.
Q. How does it work?
A. I'm not telling. Much as the whole openness thing is cool, if I reveal how DrunkenTweets works, it'll make it so that you can go out and get drunk without having your tweet archived as drunken. It's fairly primitive though, and anybody who's not completely braindead should be able to work it out - especially since there's a roomful of people who know how it works and there's probably video and tweets floating around explaining it. Consider it an open secret. Anyway, part of making it better means strengthening it so that it does a better job of picking truly drunken tweets.
Q. But you don't drink!
A. Actually, I do drink, but not very much. I don't drink beer, I drink wine, champagne and spirits. And when I do drink, it's usually to get to sleep when I'm alone and feeling a bit grumpy. And when I drink, I generally don't post about it on Twitter. I drink far more like I was French than English, which, to some, is as cardinal a sin as not drinking at all. Oh well. I have other vices, namely food, grumpiness, oversleeping and procrastination.
