TtT editor

[Frisco Del Rosario]

Hello.

The epiccolorado account at Twitter told me that the TweaktheTweet editor is a quick and dirty prototype, and will eventually be a mobile Twitter client.

Later, Kate Starbird thanked me for testing the editor on the Sugar OS, and asked if I could make it a Twitter client.

I've been working on this for a few days, and now have questions/comments:

1) If Kate was asking me to build the mobile client, that would be my first app for mobile devices. You might not want to wait for me to gain that skill.

2) While hacking at the JavaScript web application, I have learned that JS and web security do not get along. Because epiccolorado used the word "prototype", does that mean you would be OK with the Twitter-capable web application to be built in another language?

[Seth Woodworth]

Hi Frisco,

I was the pm for TweaktheTweet during the Boston crisis camp and I've been following the project since. 

First, I'm curious about your mention of the Sugar learning environment, I am a former OLPC'er and would like to help if there is something going on with Sugar.  And I'm curious what you mean by a mobile app? for what mobile platform?

--S

[Catharine E. Starbird]

Frisco,

The Tweak the Tweet editor is a quick and dirty prototype - just
something we hacked together quick to let users craft messages w/ some
help. You were quick to note that it wasn't a Twitter client and it's
just not something we've gotten around to doing yet. Lots of things on
our list here

The idea for the TtT syntax is that anyone can build tools to tap into
it and help - both processing and in this case generating tweets.

We've heard a lot of feedback for possible applications - including
the Twitter client ideas - and we're thinking about these things as
well (and have actually been thinking about many of them since the
idea emerged in Nov). We welcome syntax support by develops. You are
welcome to expand on or rebuild the editor/Twitter client into any
format you'd like. If you get something working up, we'll point to it.

Thanks,

Kate

Kate Starbird
University of Colorado
ATLAS PhD Student
catharine...@colorado.edu

[friscodelrosario]

I black boxed the web app on Sugar because I thought there would be
some Haitian kids with the XO laptop who would use the TtT editor. I
had no problems with the app.