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You can get this data as JSON. Just add .json to the url:
/lasthour.json
/lastday.json
/lastweek.json
If you like this, check out Spaz, an open-source microblogging client written in JavaScript.
These stats are taken from the Twitter streaming API's sample resource, a 5% random sample of publicly posted messages. This should provide accurate information about what people are using to post to Twitter.
Stats are collected by a PHP script and stored in a MySQL database. Static JSON files are dumped from the collected data on a regular basis. CodeIgniter, a PHP framework, was used to create this web app. The chart is generated by the Google Chart API, and the sortable table is courtesy of jQuery + SlickGrid. Source code is available on Github.
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