Oct 2008 25 th
Slowly getting there - first tweetxt screen
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Inspired by the Contrast Crew’s build an app in 5 days, I’ve spent my spare time this week playing a lot with the Twitter API. My aim here is to enable SMS and IM updates without hammering the Twitter servers for myself and my friends & to do so in as short a time as possible. To do this I am employing some fun and new ways of speaking with Twitter. In fact sometimes I don’t even have to speak to them, they speak to me!
I’ve managed to get SMS back up and running, it usually takes between 3 and 10 seconds to get to my phone after someone I follow updates. I am still fighting with some IM issues but it appears to work, but is rather flakey. I don’t know if thats Twitter or myself just yet. Anyhow see below a wee screen grab of where I am at.Yes I know it looks crap, but that because uber cool designer Walter is still on his honey moon. Once he gets his hands on it, he’ll sort out my dodgy photoshoping. In case Flickr is funny, the original is already there.
December 1st, 2008 at 11:49 am
Sounds similar to what my Tweet Tweet plugin does? Grab that and extract the scripts for O2, Vodafone and Meteor if you want!
December 1st, 2008 at 10:48 pm
LOL, Already have it installed dude. Works great!
This was just a test using Gnip. Only use the Twitter API to auth and get friends list, everything else is via Gnip notifications. But have jazzed it up a bit more, some secret things in it like IM notifications and Flickr integration. Basically it ended up being a very small and simple Friend Feed.