I’m often asked by new clients why they need custom Twitter API programming to display tweets from a single account when they could just grab the account’s RSS and display it in some kind of simple widget. The most important benefit of aggregating the tweets into a database first, and then serving them to the [...]
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The next release of the 140dev Twitter framework will introduce a set of tweet display themes. There will just be 4 at first, but I intend to have about a dozen by the following version. I know people love pre-built themes. Refined Business Colorful Minimalist
The first day has gone well. I announced the code on the Twitter dev list, and got 16 visitors to the site. The good thing is that the average pages per visitor was 7, and they spent an average of 11 minutes on the site. So people who get to the code are giving it [...]
I’ve been cleaning up the code the last few days. I finally got around to switching to tweet entities. They’ve been around for a while, but every time people complained about a problem Twitter HQ said that developers should code for their occasional disappearance. I don’t have time to code for a major data component [...]
To build the Twitter dev tweeet aggregator I used the follow option with the streaming API, which accepts a list of user ids. I’m doing this with the Phirehose library, so I’m actually using the Phirehose setFollow() method. This is the first time I’ve used the streaming follow for users rather than track for keywords. [...]
Twitter has a really open development process with the devs using their Twitter accounts freely to discuss their work. I’m going to aggregate their accounts and display them on the site. The display app isn’t in place yet, but it will soon appear here. I’ll also publish the list of accounts being followed. Building this [...]
