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dev.twitter.com - 10/25/2008
We Got Data
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There are lots of ways to get data into and out of Twitter. So many, in fact, that it's become a bit confusing as to what a developer's options are. We'd like to clear that up. REST API If you want to interact with Twitter on behalf of an individual user or a small group of users, your best ...
m.twitter.com - 10/23/2008
Twitter
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blog.wired.com - 10/24/2008
Twitter as a Terrorist's Killer App
— blog.wired.com — Could Twitter become terrorists' newest killer app? A draft Army intelligence report, making its way through spy... circles, thinks the miniature messaging software could be used as an effective tool for coordinating militant attacks.  ... (more) Twitter as a Terrorist's Killer App

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Twitter Goes Mainstream
online.wsj.com - 10/27/2008
Twitter Goes Mainstream
— online.wsj.com — [Twitter Goes Mainstream] Getty Images Co-founders Jack Dorsey (left) and Biz Stone... (more) Twitter Goes Mainstream

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TechCrunch:  Realtime wars pick up speed

VentureBeat:  Once again, Twitter’s death is laid out. Once again, users will fail to notice

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Realtime wars pick up speed
TechCrunch — ... Thursday night Twitter engineer Alex Payne finally acknowledged the obvious regarding the firehose - the full stream of data sought after by third-party developers to add back the long-withheld Track service. Twitter executives have been all over the map on this, sending developers on a wild goose chase to obtain access to the XMPP stream that the company has failed to provide since May. ...

Once again, Twitter’s death is laid out. Once again, users will fail to notice
VentureBeat — ... In a post on its developer blog a couple days ago, Twitter API lead developer Alex Payne outlined what the service is doing with the vast amount of data it’s receiving everyday. Payne discussed the service’s use of application programming interfaces (APIs), feeds and pinging services to give third parties and users the information they want from ...

Twitter API Lead Changes Priorities With New Book
Stay N' Alive — ... So, seeing perhaps the most important player in Twitter’s API development completely shift their focus after posts like this one last week by Alex himself, I can’t help but wonder where the priorities are at Twitter and who’s actually working. Does this mean we’ll never see them open the firehose? As a Twitter developer, I’m truly worried about this announcement. ...

Real-Time News: PubSub Gets Ready for a Comeback
ReadWriteWeb — ... Interestingly, the new PubSub also seems to import some Twitter feeds, though without having access to the Twitter Firehose, these updates usually seem to take almost half an hour before they appear on the service. ...

Twe2: Free Twitter SMS Updates For Europe and the Rest of the World
ReadWriteWeb — ... One problem with Twe2, however, is that the service doesn't have access to Twitter's firehose feed, so that it can often take a while before it notices a new message and forwards it to you. ...

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