diff -r d63529bd67ad -r 02971f8dcaa5 client/js/tweetsource.js
--- a/client/js/tweetsource.js	Fri Feb 24 15:36:11 2012 +0100
+++ b/client/js/tweetsource.js	Fri Feb 24 17:46:20 2012 +0100
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
     this.tweetArray = _tweetArray;
     this.majorInterval = 10000; // Time slices for calculating the minor Interval setting
     this.minimumInterval = 1000; // Safe limit to avoid tweets going to the wrong column
-    this.initialBuffer = 120000; // don't start with empty columns, but show the tweets of the last 120 seconds
+    this.initialBuffer = 300000; // don't start with empty columns, but show the tweets of the last five minutes - 5 * 60 * 1000 = 300000
     this.waitIfNoTweets = 2000;
     this.callback = _callback;
     this.lastEndTime = new Date().valueOf() - this.initialBuffer;