From Social to Serious: Combining Twitter and RESTful Web Services
Twitter is ideal for performing all kinds of useful programmatic projects. See how to create a RESTful data application around an XML database, and you will learn how to make the Twitter API work with virtual collections.
by Kurt Cagle
March 30, 2009
he first time I encountered Twitter I dismissed it. At the time, people were keeping "logs" of their day-to-day activities, most of which were just dull. Unless you were actively following someone you cared about, such daily minutiae was irrelevant, and the Twitter interface didn't make it immediately obvious how you could subscribe to the people you cared about. So Twitter faced the critical mass problem that a lot of network-oriented technologies face.
However, when Tim O'Reilly started actively twittering, I followed him and began to realize that the Twitter universe was considerably more active than the last time I visited. Moreover, a subtle change had taken place. No longer limited to people talking about their day-to-day activities, Twitter increasingly was becoming an alternate channel to RSS feeds—a way for users to broadcast links for interesting, amusing or relevant web content to people who follow them.
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he first time I encountered Twitter I dismissed it. At the time, people were keeping "logs" of their day-to-day activities, most of which were just dull. Unless you were actively following someone you cared about, such daily minutiae was irrelevant, and the Twitter interface didn't make it immediately obvious how you could subscribe to the people you cared about. So Twitter faced the critical mass problem that a lot of network-oriented technologies face.
