Andy Badera. Jackass tech consultant, .NET geek extraordinaire and
CTO. Take your pick on the priority of those three. Been working with
the Twitter API since November or December 2007. I wrote the first
.NET client posting simultaneously to both Pownce (whodat?) and
Twitter. (First .NET client for Pownce, period.)
Features? I could go on forever.
∞ Andy Badera
∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice
∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private
∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera
What have I built? Some public stuff is at http://github.com/znmeb/Twitter-API-Perl-Utilities
and http://github.com/znmeb/Ruby-Streaming-Testing.
What do I most want to see added? Well, right now, I'd mostly like to
see Twitter put up a public page with all the "gee-whiz" statistics -
how many tweets per hour are being created, how many searches are
being done, how many people are joining Twitter per day, etc. I'm
happy with the API itself.
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky/
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul
Erdős
For a long time, I didn't 'get' Twitter. Then I thought of having the
classified ads on my site send an update to the site's Twitter status
each time someone posts a new ad. A TinyURL for the ad is included in
the status update.
I also realized that Twitter is a really good way to keep my site's
users updated about the site. There are many possible pratfalls if one
tries to keep a mailing list, that include getting blacklisted due to
false spam complaints and so on. So, I'm letting Twitter be the means
by which I stay in touch with my site's visitors!
Now I am a big fan of Twitter.
I use Classic ASP with the API.
My site isn't anything fancy, it is just a fun little hobby site for
owners of Quarter Horses at http://QHTimes.com (Twitter account
QHtimes)
--Lil
Richard Cunningham
http://twitter.com/rythie
I'm Ed Finkler. I make stuff with JavaScript and PHP and related junk,
and think about security from time to time. I've built stuff like
this:
* Spaz, a microblogging client that's older than you. Desktop and
webOS
http://getspaz.com
* SpazCore, a component library for JavaScript that helps devs build
web runtime applications.
http://github.com/funkatron/spazcore
* Twitter Source Stats, a simple web app that tracks and displays
stats about how people are posting to Twitter
http://funkatron.com/tss
* The feature I'd like added to the API the most would be a social-
graph-type method that included screen names
--
Ed Finkler
http://funkatron.com
Twitter:@funkatron
AIM: funka7ron
ICQ: 3922133
XMPP:funk...@gmail.com
@JoeMayo
On Feb 19, 1:20 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread ...
I'm Jonathan Markwell I first experimented with the the API in in
Summer 2007 when I made our office Nabaztag Rabbit speak all the
tweets in my timeline (it wasn't long before it was thrown out the
window). I pay the bills as an independent Ruby on Rails developer,
mostly working on Twitter integrations.
I'm really interested in the challenges of scaling developer
communities and have just started a series of blog posts on the topic
here: http://blog.jot.is/the-unsolved-scaling-challenge
I enjoy organising real world developer events and activities inspired
by the barcamp, coworking, hack space and seed accelerator movements
mostly in Brighton and London in the UK. These include:
The Twitter Developer Nest: http://twitterdevelopernest.com
WarbleCamp - The Twitter Developer Unconference: http://warblecamp.com
Developer Mission - A group of UK hackers travelling to Chirp:
http://developermission.com
The Skiff coworking space: http://theskiff.org
BootCycle - Peer support for early stage technology products:
http://bootcycle.com
BarCampBrighton: http://barcampbrighton.org
Please let me know if you are interested in participating in any of
the above or replicating them in your part of the world.
The feature I'd most like to see added to the API is a way for us to
add freeform metadata to tweets and users. This would enable the
developer community to experiment with the potential of new features
enabling us to innovate in the same way that users have with notations
such as @ and #.
I'm also working on my own app called Smidgn which is an approach to
achieving some of the benefits the above feature would provide.
Looking forward to meeting many of you at Chirp, I'm also travelling
to SXSWi for the first time this year, would be great to meet any of
you that are there.
@jot
--
Jonathan Markwell
Engineer | Founder | Connector
Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK
Web application development & support
Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
http://inuda.com
Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com
Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton -
http://theskiff.org
Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com
mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953
skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot
Great idea Abraham!
I'm Jonathan Markwell I first experimented with the the API in in
Summer 2007 when I made our office Nabaztag Rabbit speak all the
tweets in my timeline (it wasn't long before it was thrown out the
window). I pay the bills as an independent Ruby on Rails developer,
mostly working on Twitter integrations.
<snip>
I spend most of my other free web time maintaining a design awards
site (http://www.moluv.com - 10 years) and honing my internet
marketing skills.
I was relocated out of my job and December, and it feels good...at
least until I have to start paying bills again. Anyone need online
marketing help?
The feature I'd like to most see from Twitter is a non-feature.
Please keep it simple. Google has done a great job with this over the
years with their main search page. Hopefully, Twitter can do the
same.
@moluv1
@moluv00
@pay4tweet
On Feb 19, 12:20 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could
> find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread
> [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
>
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group
> since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration
> and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build
> or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.
>
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a
> fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into
> Twitter profiles.
>
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to
> get replies to a specific status.
>
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do
> you most want to see added?
>
> @Abraham
>
> [1]http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
> [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> [3]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo...
Current Twitter related Projects include http://TwitIQ.com and
http://TwitHive.com.
We're also working on another Twitter related project around
conversations that will be launched soon.
I have lots of feature requests but the three top ones that would help
me immediately would be:
- Display of in_reply_to_status_id in search results if tweets are
replies to other tweets
- Better Twitter paging support so that you can retrieve tweets in
date order starting from a since_id
- Better people search ranking geared towards twitter names (eg.
search for yong and it should return yongsu first)
Yong Su Kim - http://www.HanPerson.com
ysk at hanperson.com
My name is Andrew Seigner. I created http://heypic.me to display
tweets on a Google Map, with iPhone integration and a public API
supporting XML and KML.
The site uses python-twitter and oauth-python-twitter. I contributed
minor changes to each, adding Geo and Trends support to python-twitter
and a bug fix to oauth-python-twitter:
http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/
http://code.google.com/p/oauth-python-twitter/
The feature I would most like to see was actually fulfilled a few days
ago with the release of the mobile OAuth login page, go team! The next
feature I'd like to see is delegated OAuth, so the iPhone app could
post photos to TwitPic or YFrog, rather than just using ImageShack.
Nice to meet everyone,
Andrew
http://twitter.com/siggy_sf
http://heypic.me/user/siggy_sf
I'm a Linux enthusiast and run Debian on my personal systems with
xmonad, Vim, Firefox+Vimperator. Give me text, and take the mouse with
you. :)
My first Twitter app was Twirc [2], a local IRC gateway for Twitter.
It's the Twitter client I use.
Chris Thompson wrote and maintained Net::Twitter through version 2.12. I
wrote replacement, from scratch, and Chris handed off the project to me.
So I authored Net::Twitter 3.0 and maintain it, currently.
Net::Twitter and the community of users and applications they've built
have been a joy to work with. I'm registered for Chirp and I'm doing a
little fund raising from the Net::Twitter users to help cover the costs
of attending [3].
In my spare time, I'm working on packrati.us (@packratius) [4], a
Twitter + Delicious mashup. It started as a simple learning project for
OAuth and the Streaming API. I'm really pleased with the backend code,
which is where most of the effort has gone. If I can shake loose some
more time, I need to do plenty of front end work (a designer I am not)
and add some features to make it useful to a wider audience.
I'll 2nd @Abraham's feature request for a conversation method returning
replies for a specified status. I'd also like to see some consistency
in error handling. Getting "Not authorized" for user_timeline can mean
(1) the account is protected and the authenticated user is not
authorized, (2) the account is suspended, (3) the account has 0 tweets.
Getting a 500 response with HTML content from the Search API is
unhelpful; getting an error response in the requested format would be
much saner. There are many other inconsistencies in error responses.
Life would be easier if they were addressed.
Looking forward to Chirp and meeting some other Twitter devs there.
@semifor
[1] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Twitter
[2] http://search.cpan.org/dist/POE-Component-Server-Twirc/
[3]
http://semifor.posterous.com/how-1000-became-0-and-how-it-can-be-fixed-for
[4] http://packrati.us
On Feb 19, 10:20 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could
> find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread
> [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
>
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group
> since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration
> and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build
> or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.
>
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a
> fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into
> Twitter profiles.
>
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to
> get replies to a specific status.
>
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do
> you most want to see added?
>
> @Abraham
>
> [1]http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
> [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> [3]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo...
http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/
--
------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ --
Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * cka...@floodgap.com
-- Remember, kids: for great justice take off every zig! ----------------------
I'm Scott Wilcox (@dordotky). I'm a freelance developer and currently run and maintain the http://tweekly.fm and http://laststat.us services. I developer mostly in PHP over the majority of my projects but plan to switch to either Ruby or Python this year. I'm also an iPhone developer and plan to release a few apps this year.
I use both the REST API and Streaming API regularly and agree with the comments on standardising the errors across the platform (the user_timeline as mention by Marc is a particular pet hate).
I've also been doing some research in to awareless of embedded EXIF data in images that are posted to Twitter via services such as twitpic.com. I'll be publishing these finds towards the end of the month.
I sadly won't be attending Chirp due to it being too far to travel from England and not enough funds to do so :( Hopefully one of you will create a webcast for me to watch!
Scott.
I'm Daniel, I started the TweetSharp project (http://tweetsharp.com)
which I work on with Jason.
If you work with .NET, you probably want to use TweetSharp.
We're happily supporting users like Seesmic, TidyTweet, Sobees, and
beginners alike so they can build great Twitter applications.
Our API has grown to include fluent and service-based support for 100%
of the Twitter API, and most recently Yammer as well.
We're going to do our best to make it to Chirp this year.
@dimebrain and @jdiller
On Feb 19, 3:20 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could
> find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread
> [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
>
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group
> since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration
> and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build
> or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.
>
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a
> fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into
> Twitter profiles.
>
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to
> get replies to a specific status.
>
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do
> you most want to see added?
>
> @Abraham
>
> [1]http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
> [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> [3]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo...
This is Amitab (@hiamitabha) and I am working on identifying location
specific tweets at http://www.twaller.com. There are Twaller pages for
many of the cities where all you folks live, so it was great to meet
so many people through this forum.
I am a heavy user of the Search and Streaming APIs. I am just getting
started with developing an iPhone app for Twaller, if anyone here
would like to work with me/ help me, that would be awesome.
I also want to thank everyone here for maintaining such a lively
discussion forum, I have get a lot of help from the notes available
here, sometimes I don't acknowledge because the thread is too old, but
I do want to say that all of you do a lot of awesome work for the
Twiiter community.
/Amitab
Follow Twaller @mytwaller
On Feb 21, 12:02 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice to see so many awesome introductions :)
>
> I've been adding you and your applications to some Twitter lists so if I
> missed anything let me know.
>
> https://twitter.com/abraham/twitter-api-developershttps://twitter.com/abraham/twitter-applications
>
> @abraham
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 17:08, Marco Kaiser <kaiser.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm Marco Kaiser (@marco), started playing with the API in Summer 2007 and
> > developed AIR-based twhirl back then. It was acquired by Seesmic almost two
> > years ago now, and I joined the company, too. Did a couple more Twitter
> > desktop apps since then... :) I am based in Germany, and I also act as a
> > moderator on this list.
>
> > I'll be at Chirp.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Marco
>
> > On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Scott Wilcox <sc...@tig.gr> wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> >> I'm Scott Wilcox (@dordotky). I'm a freelance developer and currently run
> >> and maintain thehttp://tweekly.fmandhttp://laststat.usservices. I
@ak1394 Anton Krasovsky, Dublin, Ireland. Author of PavoMe (twitter
client for java mobiles).
I've been working with twitter for about half a year, and my efforts
are split between working
on client application and backend server (which handles all
communication between handset and Twitter servers, and is written in
Erlang).
So far the only twitter opensource released by me was an Erlang client
library. I don't think anyone except me actually uses it.
I'm looking forward to see xAuth avaiable - few users in China will
appreciate not having to
struggle with GFW to get their oauth tokens.
http://github.com/ak1394/twerl
Regards,
Anton
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Abraham Williams <4br...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm John SJ Anderson, aka @genehack.
In my day job I work for the National Institutes of Health, doing
various sorts of IT-ish stuff (everything from datacenter management
to web app development). For fun I do little web apps and other stuff
in Perl, as well as occasionally writing on my
old-school-but-mostly-lapsed blog genehack.org.
I joined this list just a few days ago because I started working on a
personal web server-style web application to aggregate Twitter,
Identi.ca, and Facebook (and probably other stuff once I get around to
it) into a single interface. Haven't released anything yet, so the
name might change, but right now I'm calling it 'StatusSkein'. Source
is at <http://github.com/genehack/app-status-skein>; screenshot at
<http://twitpic.com/14egkg/full>. (This was mainly to play around with
HTML::FormHandler and MooseX::Declare, but it seems to be turning into
something useful...)
What I'd most like to see added, or figure out how to do, is a way to
use the OAuth stuff without having to distribute my consumer secret. I
gather I'm not alone in this. 8^/
@genehack
I have a passion for all things geo (& weather), and so am keen to see
more development in the geo area of the API. The addition of the
geostream is fantastic, be great to see that use the location field if
no specific geo data is provided. Also would love to see language based
filtering of streams.
I'm heading to San Jose at the end of March for Where 2.0 & WhereCamp,
after which I will be floating around San Francisco through until after
Chirp. Looking forward to the presentations from the Twitter team at
both conferences, and meeting many of you.
Cheers,
JB.
I'm Anil Chawla and I develop a free service called tweetymail -
http://tweetymail.com - which is a full-featured Twitter client based
entirely on email. I've been using the API since early 2009 and
develop my applications in PHP (thank you Abraham for your excellent
TwitterOAuth library).
The feature I would most like to see is the Search API providing the
correct Twitter user IDs :-) I am also excited about xAuth and agree
with Marc's comment about getting more clarity in some of the error
messages.
@anilchawla
On Feb 19, 3:20 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could
> find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread
> [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
>
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group
> since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration
> and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build
> or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.
>
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a
> fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into
> Twitter profiles.
>
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to
> get replies to a specific status.
>
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do
> you most want to see added?
>
> @Abraham
>
> [1]http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
> [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> [3]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo...
We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles.The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status.So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added?@Abraham
I'm Nik (@nikf) and work at Realmac Software in Brighton, England. We
make a few Mac OS X applications - RapidWeaver / LittleSnapper and
Socialite (previously known as Eventbox) which brings multiple social
networks into one place. Whilst technically 'Support & QA Manager' I
also keep the ball rolling with Socialite. Socialite[1] is one of the
few Twitter clients (on *any* platform I believe) to actually do OAuth
using PIN entry, and as you can imagine we're itching for xAuth :)
One thing I'm really looking forward to is new developer site Ryan
announced in his talk at LeWeb. It'd be nice to easily and clearly
know if features in the Twitter service are deactivated (like Retweets
have been in the past).
Cheers!
I got started on the iPhone 22 years ago as one of the first third
party developers for Steve Job's company 'NeXT' - and we're using the
same, though evolved, SDK and language (objectiveC) on the iPhone and
iPad today.
I'm looking forward to CHIRP and meeting you all, and I have a special
connection to the Palace of Fine Arts. In 1992, John Perry Barlow and
I invited a bunch of our outrageous psychedelic friends and members of
the NeXT community to a rave we hosted there. I think that was the
last one they let happen there, but it was quite memorable! My phone
was tapped for two years after that, but it was worth it.
I'd love feature parity with Twitter web - like a flag to home
timeline that would include RT's. I'd like access to xAUTH like some
other vendors already have, to have Apple Push Notification Service
built in to twitter's device delivery options, and while I'm
fantasizing, a link to our app in the ad-space!
Abraham Williams wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I
> could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the
> tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
>
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this
> group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter
> API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative
> projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward
> to meeting many of you at Chirp.
>
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also
> built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and
> followers into Twitter profiles.
>
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation
> method to get replies to a specific status.
>
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature
> do you most want to see added?
>
--ab
I'm Mike Champion, a Ruby/Rails developer outside Boston working at
oneforty.com. I've worked with the Twitter API for a couple years off
& on, working on a friend recommendation site called
whoshouldifollow.com (trying to help the on-ramp problem) and wrote a
Twitter integration for a mobile photo sharing service called
SnapMyLife, and a couple other unpublished/half-finished projects.
One of the things we've been playing with at oneforty is how to
measure which apps are being used in the wild. We monitor the garden
hose (and other sources) to see which apps are posting, but would love
to find better ways to know what (non-posting) apps people are using.
So having a more structured source parameter would go a long way
(which Raffi has been great about). Open to talking with anyone who
has thoughts on this area.
And I'm excited to see the rumors of having an Sign Up API (http://
www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_rolls_out_new_api_citysearch_first_to_impl.php)
which would be great for a site like ours.
Finally, I'm interested in figuring out how I can help the Twitter dev
community more. Would be curious if Raffi and other Twitter folks have
a wishlist that they would like to see the community do.
I'll be at Chirp in April and would love to meet other twitter devs,
and any in the Boston area before then.
Cheers,
-mike
On that note, I'd be willing to help the community out more too.
Scott.
I'm Damon Cortesi (@dacort) and have been addicted to building Twitter
apps for the past two years now. I wrote my first Twitter app in 2007.
It was a perl script that downloaded your tweets and inserted them
into an iWork Numbers template to graph your timeline and top
replies[1]. That script eventually became TweetStats.com. Over the
course of the past two years, I've probably built some 20-30 different
Twitter apps - some released, some not. A couple of the other main
ones I work on are TweepSearch.com, TwitterAvatar.appspot.com and
rowfeeder.com.
I used to do security consulting full-time, mostly in the web app and
payment card data security spaces. This whole Twitter app stuff was
just a hobby that kept me up late on the weekends. After a stint last
summer as a Twitter Entrepreneur in Residence at a VC up here in
Seattle, I finally realized I wanted to build social media apps full-
time and started a new company[2] to do so just last month.
I'd love any features that let us access more data, specifically my
full timeline would be awesome to be able to access again. :)
Damon
[1] http://dcortesi.com/2007/12/27/twitter-stats/
[2] http://untitledstartup.com
On Feb 19, 12:20 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could
> find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread
> [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
>
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group
> since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration
> and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build
> or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.
>
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a
> fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into
> Twitter profiles.
>
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to
> get replies to a specific status.
>
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do
> you most want to see added?
>
> @Abraham
>
> [1]http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
> [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> [3]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo...
I'm the founder of the just released http://www.twavatars.com/ , your
twitter avatar's little helper. I worked hard to get it to be a cool,
fun and easy little tool. I'd love to get some feedback from anyone
who's got the time and willingness to do so.
Most fervent wishes are greater platform stability and speed in
general and more bulletproof avatar architecture and handling.
Me = @howardliptzin and @twavatars
I'm @ginatrapani, and I'm working on ThinkTank (http://
thinktankapp.com), an install-it-yourself webapp that archives your
tweets, friends, followers, and mentions and makes curating/filtering
tweet replies easier. (It also makes use of Abraham's TwitterOAuth
library, so THANK YOU kind sir.) It started as a weekend project, but
I just got funding by Expert Labs, a non-profit that makes tech for
helping government use social media more effectively--so now it's my
full-time job. In April, the White House will use ThinkTank for their
Grand Challenges project. In short, they'll use Twitter and other
services + ThinkTank to gather and curate public feedback about what
should be our top-priority scientific and technology challenges.
Exciting stuff.
ThinkTank's source code is here:
http://github.com/ginatrapani/thinktank
Here's more about ThinkTank and Expert Labs:
http://smarterware.org/5187/thinktank-is-now-at-expert-labs
My top API wishlist item is retrieving all the replies to a given
tweet.
I'm also planning to come to Chirp, and hope to meet you all there.
Best,
Gina
I'm Shannon Whitley. I prefer .NET coding, but I do a lot of work in
PHP these days (thanks to WordPress and Facebook).
A few of my projects are listed on http://whitleymedia.com, but my
favorite is still a Twitter Excel client (that some suggested should
be named "Excreet").
I run Chat Catcher and My Tweeple -- so, I'd love to see fewer
limitations on the streaming API and more than 100 people per page in
the REST API.
And, I know they said they wouldn't do this, but I'd love to see
Twitter create permanent urls for our profile images.
i'm @raffi.
i was hired aboard the @twitterapi team in july of last year by @al3x
and @rsarver. at the time, i was looking for a place that would
really give me the chance to work on really hard problems, work with
really smart people, and also allow me to really make an impact on
peoples' lives. i think i'm lucky to have found that place.
@twitter, and especially this team and the people on it, are great.
in the last few months, i've pushed out the geotagging API, the local
trends APIs, and tons of other stuff and bug fixes. i really enjoy
figuring out "the right way" to express and capture the representation/
interaction methods of a platform. i also have fun puzzling through
security problems. i love interacting with and talking to developers
(and sometimes find i don't have enough time for it), and i get really
excited when developers find creative and interesting ways to take our
stuff and to use it in ways that we haven't thought about.
what do i wish for the most on the platform? wouldn't you all like to
know :P let's say, i'm generally interested in a few themes:
simplicity, scalability (not just our systems, but also in our
expressions and representations), and ubiquity. you can fill in the
blanks. and when you do, drop us a line.
--
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi
Howdy,I'm Donald Page from Tennesse. I'm an unemployed wannabe programmer. My experience with the twitter API came after an acquaintance asked me to build him a twitter application. I built a quick and dirty app for him but his finances fel through and nothing came of it. After following the posts on this board I realized I could not spend my time chasing the ever-changing API and decided to stp the development in favor of projects I had a better chance with.D. Page
The one feature request that stands out for me now would be to have
the ability to attach a single line of meta-data to a status update,
and to for there to be a managed namespace for using this meta data
field. Then we app/Web developers could populate that field with
interesting items and we could parse for those that we want to adopt
into our individual apps/Web sites.
--Stu/art
My tools are .Net specific, thanks Mayo for LinqToTwitter library!
Thanks to all of you for providing great advice!
On Feb 21, 11:03 pm, Anton Krasovsky <anton.krasov...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> > [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
> > [2] https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> > [3] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo...
This list has been a great source of information, and it's fantastic
to hear what everyone is working on -- thanks!
I'm looking forward to meeting folks at Chirp.
John
I'm Berto Murillo (@mstberto) and I'm from Missouri. Graduated last
year and am now a Software Engineer. In my spare time, I've built two
Twitter clients (C++ and Java). The feature I'd like to see most
added has already been said multiple times, and that's the
conversation method. This is an awesome list with a lot of help, so
thanks :D.
So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature
do
you most want to see added?
We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.
TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles.The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status.
So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added?
@Abraham
I'm Jonathan Strauss, and I'm co-founder of a startup called the
Snowball Factory[1] that builds performance marketing tools for social
media.
Our core product is called awe.sm[2] and is a campaign tracking
platform for social media (no, it's not just another URL
shortener ;-) ) with some pretty robust APIs[3]. We've also built
fbShare.me, the original retweet badge knock-off for Facebook, as well
as TweetPo.st, which cross-posts tweets to Facebook in a more
intelligent manner.
I guess at this point, our top feature request is the ability to
disable quality filtering in the Streaming API when using follow
predicates[4] :-D
And a final fun fact, we just moved into an office with Klout on the
ground floor of the same building Twitter is in. So, folks are welcome
to stop by if they're ever in the neighborhood.
@jhstrauss
[1] http://snowballfactory.com
[2] http://totally.awe.sm
[3] http://developers.awe.sm
[4] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/9f5e05fe93516a74
=====
Jonathan Strauss, Co-Founder
http://snowballfactory.com
Campaign tracking for social media - http://awe.sm
A smarter way to update Facebook from Twitter - http://tweetpo.st
Sharecount button for Facebook - http://www.fbshare.me
I am Andrew Chen(or Chen Chi-Shun in chinese name),
I am using Delphi to develop some type of twitter client.
It maybe a RSS client + Twitter client (maybe + Calendar in future).
I hope i can make money from it :D
I am also the developer of Googi Calendar,Rainbow Text Editor,...
Ian Quigley - asp.net C# developer, working on an Open Source Twitter
web client http://www.twipler.com
Built on top of TweetSharp, it provides HTML templating allowing users
to change their layout and style completely. Being Open Source means
anybody can add functionality to the web client or use the code to
deploy their own instance, or build a new project.
@ianquigley, @twipler
Also, founder of PubliciTweet but have since sold that.
twitter-async: http://github.com/jmathai/twitter-async
My name is Arnaud Meunier and I'm a Paris-based Twitter Developer &
Web Entrepreneur. I built http://twitoaster.com a real-time (thanks to
the streaming API) conversation threading service / client helping
people and businesses to improve and optimize the way they communicate
with their Twitter followers.
I signed up for Chirp, and I hope to meet many of you there!
All the best,
Arnaud.
On Feb 19, 9:20 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could
> find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread
> [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
>
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group
> since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration
> and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build
> or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.
>
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a
> fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into
> Twitter profiles.
>
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to
> get replies to a specific status.
>
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do
> you most want to see added?
>
> @Abraham
>
> [1]http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
> [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> [3]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo...
I'm a Perl and Python programmer, Linux fan and vi addict.
I'm using the excellent Net::Twitter Perl module done by Marc Mims
(@semifor).
Abraham Williams wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I
> could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the
> tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
>
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this
> group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter
> API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative
> projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward
> to meeting many of you at Chirp.
>
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also
> built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and
> followers into Twitter profiles.
>
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation
> method to get replies to a specific status.
>
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature
> do you most want to see added?
>
> @Abraham
>
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/c7cdaa0840f0de84/
> [2] https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> [3] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogokloiggg
a. I had the correct connection algorithm, backoffs, DNS time-to-live, etc.
b. I had Twitter-supplied code.
c. I could connect to Streaming using *any* scripting language SWIG supports.
I haven't looked at all of the libraries, but the two I've worked
with, one in Ruby and one in Perl, both translate the raw JSON coming
out of Streaming into "native" objects. This isn't going to scale, and
Twitter recommends against it.
I simply want a C library to connect to Streaming with a specified
parameter set, do the DNS time-to-live stuff right, do the reconnect
stuff right, and present me with JSON text lines I can queue, write to
a file, or, for that matter, drop on the floor. And really, I only
care about JSON - you can go ahead and deprecate XML and I'll write a
blog post telling the world how many kittens you've saved! ;-)
I think the rest of the API is very well-covered in open source
libraries. I only work in Perl and Ruby, so I can't comment on the
other major languages, but I've never heard any complaints from my PHP
and Python friends. ;-)
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
borasky-research.net/m-edward-ed-borasky/
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdos
I’m Jaanus. My day job has nothing to do with Twitter, but a few
months back, I started looking into Twitter and iPhone more closely
out of personal interest as a hobby project. I wrote down how OAuth
works [1] and made a simple Objective-C implementation [2].
Just now, I released a new iPhone Twitter app, Crème. It just hit the
App Store, get it from http://cremeapp.com. As far as I’m aware, it’s
one of the first general-purpose Twitter clients on the App Store that
uses OAuth for authentication, I haven’t come across others. I use my
own PlainOAuth. I think this app breaks some new ground in terms of
how to interact with Twitter, I’d be interested in all the feedback.
One thing that nobody seems to talk about is read/unread management,
which I think about a lot. I’m not sure that it belongs in the API,
perhaps at this stage it is better left to clients, but I think all
the current clients and also the twitter.com site do a terrible job at
it, so I propose a better way with Crème. This is still local to one
device, but I do believe that there is potential in syncing reads/
unreads across devices. Until Twitter puts it in their API (if ever),
I'll probably be forced to do my own solution. Looking forward to
OAuth Echo to do the authentication part of it (e.g if I maintain my
own "unread server," I'd use OAuth Echo to make sure the reads/unreads
of different users are separated and everyone only sees their own.)
Twitter API was straightforward to work with, don’t really have any
major gripes. There’s a bunch of inconstencies (e.g I can get my own
mentions, but not others’), and one thing that is not advertised well
is the HTML encoding/decoding (a bunch of fields are HTML-encoded and
you need to remember to decode them on client side before
displaying... I think this applies only to JSON, which I’m also
using).
My only “holy crap” moment with Twitter API was when I came across the
"REST and search user IDs are different" bug (http://code.google.com/p/
twitter-api/issues/detail?id=214). That this has not been fixed after
all this time, leaves an amateur and shenaniganish taste of the whole
Twitter API operation. Fixing it does not get easier with time as
increasingly more data is generated, you know... but, on the client
side I do not need to do global matching for any users, I could work
around it by simply using screen names throughout the app, so for my
particular case it was not a showstopper, but it leaves a bad taste.
One other thing I didn't find much info about is how Twitter works
with profile images. As users upload them, multiple versions are
generated, and you have to truncate and replace parts of filename to
get the different versions, but I came across it as hearsay, I don't
think it's documented.
So, check out cremeapp.com :)
[1] http://www.jaanuskase.com/en/2010/01/understanding_the_guts_of_twit.html
[2] http://www.jaanuskase.com/en/2010/01/an_example_iphone_twitter_app.html
rgds,
Jaanus
@jaanus
http://www.jaanuskase.com/
Perl AnyEvent::Twitter::Stream now has a no_decode_json option:
http://twitter.com/miyagawa/status/9851560584
@semifor
There's the chance to enrich tweets using our API and get semantic
entity markup, nonintrusive in-text affiliate commerce links, related
content, social relevance scores and more.
This can be an interesting feature to add to a Twitter client.
Bye
When you get a chance, please definitely pop the deets about ThinkTank
into http://oneforty.com so we can help it get found - this is *my*
startup that i was just teensy tiny embryo incubating when I met you
last spring at FOO. We'd also love to collect Abraham's & any other
libraries you've found useful (just use "Suggest App). Last I checked
there were only 4 things tagged API Library, Net::Twitter among them,
even though we're tracking more than 2500 apps.
(Boy have I gotten to learn a LOT about software since I saw you
last. :-) )
We're hosting Twitter API developer parties at SXSW (tweetvite.com/
event/beeroclock) & the night before Chirp (TBD)
Hope you are well & hope I see you soon
Warmly,
Laura Fitton (aka @Pistachio)
(who really needs to update her list membership to be from
la...@oneforty.com!!!)
Laura Fitton
CEO/Founder, oneforty inc.
la...@oneforty.com
617-838-2456
I can think of fairly easy ways to code it using the API, but I'm
wondering if something like that could be built into the web app.
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erd?s
Have used Twitter since the mid of 2007 but only as a user; developing
on Twitter for the first time as my hobby project :)
Hoping to get involved in this group and have some good conversations
around ;)
@pranavbhat
We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into Twitter profiles.The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to get replies to a specific status.So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do you most want to see added?@Abraham
http://snapbird.org does the kind of search you're looking for. All
done in javascript and the code is available at
http://github.com/remy/snapbird. Built by @rem
Jon.
--
Jonathan Markwell
Engineer | Founder | Connector
Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK
Web application development & support
Twitter & Facebook integration specialists
http://inuda.com
Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community
http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com
Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton -
http://theskiff.org
Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com
mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953
skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot
The feature I would love the most is a conversation API so it's easy
to show conversations based on a tweet.
Quy
On Feb 19, 1:20 pm, Abraham Williams <4bra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could
> find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread
> [1](Gmail link [2]) as well.
>
> I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group
> since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration
> and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build
> or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp.
>
> TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and
> maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a
> fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into
> Twitter profiles.
>
> The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to
> get replies to a specific status.
>
> So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do
> you most want to see added?
>
> @Abraham
>
> [1]http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread...
> [2]https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e
> [3]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogo...
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I am Craig Hughes, a Graphic Designer and Web Developer based in Wales
(UK). I speak fluent Photoshop, Fireworks and Illustrator and build
my web projects using PHP, jQuery, Javascript and a sprinkle of Spry
for good measure.
The Twitter platform was the first API I worked with to develop a web
service. Back in March 2009, I built tweetzi, an augmented interface
for searching Twitter that allowed users to 'play' or 'pause' the
results stream. Working with Twitter search was a complete revelation
as I realized how powerful and useful the information contained in
millions of real-time tweets could be.
Expanding on tweetzi, I recently finished developing tweetzi LOCAL, a
new type of classifieds service that uses localized Twitter data to
provide ways for users to interact at a city level. The service
provides a way for users to browse and post tweets across dozens of
categories in a similar fashion to services such as Craigslist, Oodle
and Gumtree.
I look forward to the new Twitter search developments (popular tweets)
being rolled out.
Kind Regards
Craig
@tweetzi
Contact: http://tweetzi.com/local/talk
UK: 020 8144 8505
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Using the Twitter API we have created an extensive and easy-to-use
photo sharing API and client libraries for Obj-C, Java and .Net. Other
3rd party developers in the Twitter community have developed client
libraries for PHP and Python as well.
Like you Abraham, we are constantly looking to improve our API. Please
take a look at our API and let us know what we can provide the Twitter
community to create an even better photo sharing experience.
Please let me know how I can help you create a more social photo
sharing experience in your application.
The TweetPhoto API can be found http://groups.google.com/group/tweetphoto
~Sean
Hi! This is Guillermo Gutiérrez, spanish PHP developer, all-things-
geek fan and tv-show lover. Trying to raise PHP's sourcecode average
quality from 2001 and failing most of the time. Working with Symfony
framework from 0.6 alpha release and sticking always to Propel.
--
To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
David Beckemeyer here, founder of BDT.COM, SF Bay Area ISP and
consulting firm during in the 80's - 90's and founding CTO of
EarthLink 1995-2005.
http://www.bdt.com/david/index.html
http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidbeckemeyer
Twitter mashups include Taglets.org and Twitmart.org (which is under a
re-design/restart phase).
my name is laura fitton but i answer to @pistachio. i'm more than a
bit silly and idealistic and i've been so excited about twitter for so
many years that i've stumbled into a few pretty lucky things like
speaking, writing twitter for dummies & eventually founding oneforty.
i started prattling on about twitter for business to whoever would
listen in Aug 2007, so i think about what tools are needed quite a
lot. and i get VERY excited about what the right tools could mean for
the world. in general, not just the business world.
i can't code my way out of a wordpress install, so i mostly lurk here
on the list.
we're almost fanatically devoted to finding out what TwitterAPI
developers need to thrive and build their apps to be as successful as
possible. please hit me up (here. at Chirp. on email or cell.) and
tell me what problems www.oneforty.com can best help you with.
as to the events of this week, i'm troubled for the potential future
loss of what Twitter could be to the world if the system's innovators
are not supported and cultivated with great respect.
we'd love to see more libraries (http://oneforty.com/tag/API
%20library) and other useful-to-developers things (http://oneforty.com/
tag/developer%20tools) listed on www.oneforty.com. anyone can add them
anytime, or add tags on stuff already listed. thank you.
also? #prechirp developers' party: http://tweetvite.com/event/prechirp
Tues 4/13 6-8 pm at 3rd & South Park free pizza, beer, wine etc
sponsored by oneforty ellerdale klout liveintent oneriot plancast
140proof awe.sm & porternovelli
warmly,
laura
Laura Fitton
CEO/Founder, oneforty inc.
la...@oneforty.com
617-838-2456 (yeah, that's really my cell number.)
I started with programming at the age of 12, trying to make that "Oh I
want to make my own Game"-Dream come true.
I've recently switched from Vista to Ubuntu and couldn't find Twitter
Client that fitted my needs, so I started writing my own one.
You can check it out over at my GitHub Account if you like to:
http://github.com/BonsaiDen
I've been working on the thing for something like 6 weeks now(full
time, 12 or more hours a day...), it's my first "major" project to be
gentle with it ;)
Before all of that I did a lot of web stuff, languages and stuff that
I'd teach myself include JavaScript, Python, Java, a bit of C, HTML
and CSS.
Have you looked at Get2Gnow (http://github.com/uberchicgeekchick/get2gnow)
--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
http://borasky-research.net/about-smartznmeb/ @znmeb
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." ~ Paul Erdős
I'm still a Student in real life, though I do a small amount of Web
Development (PHP, HTML, Javascript) to earn some money doing what I
enjoy. I've been messing around with the API for months mostly out of
interest and because the clients I make webapps for from time to time
like to include a basic login integration or the like. I've been
hanging around this group for a while, but I've only got round to
signing up to post now.
@amit_nanda
#twittertime service - "Find out how many days you are in a twitter"
- http://twitter.seocoder.org/
#UnFollower - standalone windows application writen in Delphi.
UnFollow Who Not Follow U at
http://www.seocoder.org/2010/03/25/twitter-pervaya-utilita-unfollower-udalyaem-tex-kto-nas-ne-followit/