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wow. the great semicolon debate of 2012

"This service is an attempt to address two issues many Caltrain commuters have by empowering them to send alerts themselves."

"I want to make something clear from the start: I love Twitter, though sometimes I wonder if I’m suffering from Stockholm syndrome. I have devoted much of the last three years of my life to working with the Twitter API and continue to pursue building the world’s best Twitter client for professionals in the form of Siftee. Recently Twitter staff has been reaching out to developers with a renewed vigor in the hopes of recapturing some of the goodwill and enthusiasm that has been squandered in the past two years. I applaud them for that. The new developer discussion site and documentation portal are significant improvements. Jack Dorsey has reached out for feedback. I recently spent time on the phone with Jason Costa, Twitter’s developer relations manager, at his request.  I think these are all good signs for the ecosystem.<br />
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With that said, there is a lot of feedback to give. This post is a technical one focused on the API itself, not on Twitter’s relationship with developers"

adds support for more embeds on #newtwitter

"This simple bookmarklet uses Twitter Web Intents to open a Tweet window. Simply drag this link to your bookmarks bar: New Tweet "

supports web intents, but may be useable elsewhere

This site I maintain keeps track of what people are using to *post* to Twitter. After the web, Übersocial is #1.

nice diagram of auth flow

"As part of their research, women were given bags to carry around a local mall for an hour. Several were given Victoria's Secret bags, while others toted plain pink shopping bags. The study surfaced an interesting connection. Those women who carried Victoria's Secret bags felt more feminine, glamorous, and good-looking. On the contrary, those with the pink shopping bags felt indifferent. These studies represent a harbinger of the importance of personal relationships and how they're fostered in brand experiences. Businesses must bring their companies and products to life. As other studies show, social networking is incredibly emotional. As I wrote in a recent post, "Once More With Feeling," some experiments show that as we Tweet, our levels of oxytocin rise."

"Tired of the noise on Twitter? Take control with Proxlet."

uses yql store

Uses TweetNest

"In a way, the Twitter platform has come full circle. Twitter’s API grew out of its website as a means to enable outside developers to accomplish what the company, with its then-tiny and overburdened team, could not. Now that Twitter has ample resources, the matured platform is enabling the company to build the best applications in the ecosystem in-house. Going forward, it may be that the Twitter Platform primarily serves Twitter’s interests, in stark contrast to the era of API growth I was around for, in which platform development was driven almost exclusively by the needs of the developer community."

"A lot of developers have issues with OAuth, especially since Twitter decided that all developers must have upgraded to OAuth. That's where this tool can help you. Follow the wizard and you'll (hopefully) know what the problem is! It's not perfect, but it's a start :-)"

List of tools that devs use for Twitter, started by Abraham

"Grackle is a lightweight Ruby wrapper around the Twitter REST and Search APIs. It’s based on my experience using the Twitter API to build cheaptweet.com. The main goal of Grackle is to never require a release when the Twitter API changes (which it often does) or in the face of a particular Twitter API bug. As such it’s somewhat different from other Twitter API libraries. It doesn’t try to hide the Twitter "methods" under an access layer nor does it introduce concrete classes for the various objects returned by Twitter. Instead, calls to the Grackle client map directly to Twitter API URLs. The objects returned by API calls are generated as OpenStructs on the fly and make no assumptions about the presence or absence of any particular attributes. Taking this approach means that changes to URLs used by Twitter, parameters required by those URLs or return values will not require a new release. It will potentially require, however, some modifications to your code that uses Grackle."

"Testing code that talks to the Twitter Streaming API is hard. The are 8 documented failure HTTP response codes, random disconnections, and second-to-second rate changes. And, since this is Twitter we’re talking about, basically anything can happen at any time – including complete downtime. So, let me introduce you to mockingbird. Mockingbird is a simple streaming HTTP server written in Ruby that you can use in place of the server at stream.twitter.com when you’re testing your Streaming API code. With mockingbird, all it takes is a few lines of code and you can simulate all the issues I described above and more."

includes raffi's annotations formatter: http://r.github.com/annotationsformatter/

seems to keep pace with twitterapi updates

"For us, and the entire Twitter ecosystem, its really important to be able to identify, and get visibility into, our users' traffic. We want to be able to help developers if their software is malfunctioning, and we want to be able to make educated guesses as to whether traffic is malicious or not. And, if everything is functioning normally, then we can use this data to help us provision and plan for growth better and deliver better reliability. But, if all applications are simply using usernames and passwords as their identifiers, then we have no way to distinguish who is sending what traffic on behalf of which users."

Interesting info avail to dig into about Twitter "A collection of various datasets about the online phenomenon Twitter."

see slide 28 for recommended oauth libs

nice hands-on intro to node.js

The tweet archive by @graulund looks much more promising than my own WordPress hack.

Was controversial when it was published, but still very interesting.

Successor to flocking.me

Biggest #chirp disappointment: no paper to make secret origami birds :(

"Links from your twitter feed in clean RSS format Resolves URL shorteners • Removes duplicates • Runs on green energy"

been waiting for this for a while now at sparse.ly

"This is also important for Twitter API usage. One of the key restrictions with the Twitter API is that any client IP address can only make x number of API calls per hour. If you’re making these API calls from your web server (which obviously only a static IP address), you could quickly use up your hourly allocation on a busy site. Twitter does allow you to “whitelist” your web application to give you a better hourly rate, but here’s a better way: Use the clients, ie your users, to make the API calls from their browsers."

"Notes from my @musicandbits talk prep: Only 41% of Last.fm's incoming reqs / sec are to the website. The rest are API calls." Also see: http://twitter.com/flaneur/status/4972395334 "@julians API. Within that, the breakdown is 36% official Last.fm apps (web+desktop), 64% third-party calls"

"archive and organize your tweets based upon hash tags. Why would you do this? You are holding an event and would like a snapshot of all the tweets during the event and organize them based upon topics. That is what the Twapper Keeper is all about."

Nice mobile web Twitter client. Oh, and open source (PHP)

"I created this site because I am curious. When someone starts following me I wonder how they found me. Was it randomly? Was it through a friend? Now I can see if we share any friends, even better I can search any public profile."

"allows you to find great deals, without looking. If you want to purchase something, but are willing to wait for a great deal this site is for you."

private microblogging. "Socialcast is free for 10 users and $1 per month for each additional user Special rates for companies with 50+ users and non-profits"

Wordpress theme that provides Twitter-like functionality

designed for showing off twitter on the big screen. uses twitter's search function

like ping.fm meets yahoo pipes.

"the prototype implementation of a RESTful, interoperable, Internet-scale microblogging protocol, tentatively called FETHR (Featherweight Entangled Timelines over HTTP Requests)." has a twitter gateway.

"lists interesting things that show up on Twitter, based on the number of times an item has been declared a ‘favorite’." apparently "watches" certain users (can't see how else you could find this out)

"a Firefox extension that combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual. Simply navigate to the profile page or a blog of an individual you are interested in and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i."

nice howto for beginners, demystifies the OAuth process with code examples.

uses oauth and ruby templates

tool that can be used to export the most recent 3200 tweets on your Twitter timeline to a text file, one per line.

can compare to two other usernames as well

"Blog comments happen everywhere... Catch them and pull them back to your blog. Chat Catcher supports Twitter, FriendFeed, and identi.ca, along with any type of blog, and all url-shortening services. We translate short urls back to long urls, so you receive full search engine benefits. "

excellent diatribe. How I wish Twitter would just accept a long URL as a href tag to text. I guess SMS is alway the problem, but maybe you could give it a succinct link back to the original tweet? Hmmm.

nice tool to visualize the affinities of the people you follow on Twitter (by @nattster)

"It’s busy in a kitchen. It’s impossible to find the time to tell the world that the best hot rolls just came out of the oven of your bakery. Welcome BakerTweet. Spin the dial to “Hot Rolls” and press the button. A message goes out via twitter to tell the world of your delicious rolls."

"Shows replies to a user is the sidebar of that user's Twitter page"

aims to be ping for the social web, meaning push, not pull (gnip = ping backwards)

"we're forced to contend with a society in which things are being truly reconfigured. ... this creates all new questions about context & privacy, about our relationship to space & to the people around us. Specific genres of social media may come & go, but these underlying properties are here to stay. We won't turn the clock back on these. Social network sites may end up being a fad from the first decade of the 21st century, but new forms of technology will continue to leverage social network as we go forward. If we get away from thinking about the specific technologies & focus on the properties & dynamics, we can see how change is unfolding before our eyes. One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties & dynamics play a key role. This is a systems problem. We are all implicated in it - as developers & policy makers, as parents & friends, as individuals & as citizens. Social media is here to stay. Now we just have to evolve with it."

Created a tool to monitor what gets favorited by the #twitter users you follow (Y! #pipes of course)

twitter zeitgeist

glimpse of the twitterverse and what's out there

Not ready (yet) to install yet another dedicated service app "enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets. The default columns can contain All Tweets from your timeline, @replies directed to you and direct messages. The GROUP, SEARCH and REPLIES buttons then allow the user to make up additional columns populated from the live tweet information. Once created these additional columns will automatically update allowing the user to keep track of a twitter threads far easier."

"a core pattern for Web 2.0, in which a social network user can have many people following them without a need for reciprocity. Assmmetric Follow is unlike email for example, which tends to be within small groups, with all users knowing each other (newsletters are a clear exception here)." the comments are just as interesting.