Ok, so Twitter is currently down. I know this because TitsUp.net told me so.
IsTwitterDown.com says it’s working.
DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com is returning a 502 error itself so I don’t actually know if it can tell that Twitter’s not working.
So in short, use TitsUp.net - it’s better than the rest!!
Over the weekend I wrote a script to post new ads from Freeads Classifieds on Twitter. For me this was primarily a technology experiment but it may prove useful to someone so I thought I’d let everyone know about it.
Follow @ukfreeads to get the ads in your timeline. You can also see the 100 most recent ads or subscribe to the RSS feed on the main Freeads Classifieds site.
Let me know if you find it useful or have any other comments.
Last night I finally got access to the full public feed from Twitter. I’ve written a daemon in C to push all tweets received into a DB and knocked up a little toy to test that it’s working.
Doesn’t do much, just displays a random tweet from the past hour. Probably not useful to anyone besides me but I’ve found it quite interesting to see the random crap people tweet about, maybe you will too.
Next step is to feed this data into Tweetmeme and a couple of other ideas I’ve got, but need to make sure this is 110% stable first.
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been involved in developing a new site called Tweetmeme and it launches today.
You can read all about it on the Tweetmeme blog, but in short it watches activity on Twitter and keeps track of popular URLs. There is a river of URLs, RSS feeds and it also posts new URLs that get promoted to the river in Twitter (@tweetmeme). The launch has been covered by Techcrunch.
I’ve had a lot of fun developing Tweetmeme and I hope it becomes a valued resource for the Twitter community.
If you’re on Twitter feel free to follow me.