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Twitorfit
My latest project went live on Monday this week. It’s another Twitter-based toy along the same lines as hotornot but it uses your Twitter account and profile picture. Since launch it’s proved very successful and has spread quickly due to its viral nature. The site is called Twitorfit and was the brainchild of a Twitter-based [...]
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TitsUp is better than the rest
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!!
May 24th, 2008 | Filed under Misc -
Recent ads from Freeads Classifieds on Twitter
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 [...]
Apr 28th, 2008 | Filed under Cool, Technology -
Twitter public timeline
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. Random Tweet Doesn’t do much, just displays a random tweet from the past hour. Probably not useful [...]
Apr 4th, 2008 | Filed under Cool -
Tweetmeme Launch
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 [...]
Jan 28th, 2008 | Filed under Cool
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