Twitter / adactio: Good news.
Looks like the scourge of hashbangs is finally being cleansed from Twitter.
Tags: twitter
Pentametron: With algorithms subtle and discrete / I seek iambic writings to retweet.
Algorithmically-generated combinations of tweets in iambic pentameter. Some of the results are really quite lovely. I’m imagining a poetry reading of this stuff in a hip café …it would be fun.
Chirp Clock
This serendipitous chronometer shows tweets that are mentioning the current time.
At Twitter, The Future is You! - YouTube
A hackweek project from Twitter employees to create the best/worst recruitment video of all time.
Molly - She turns your tweets into sweets.
A cute little internet-enabled sweet dispenser, powered by your retweets.
Why I love Twitter and the Internet | Kevin Ebaugh
I love this little story of small pieces of the internet loosely joining together: NPR, Twitter, Downcast and Huffduffer.
Follow the lives of four Londoners during World War 2 via Twitter – Network’43
A nicely-designed project to highlight everyday life in a three-week period in England in 1943 by imagining how four people would have used Twitter.
Twitter Bootstrap
Bootstrap is Twitter’s CSS and markup style guide—very similar to the pattern portfolios that we often provide as deliverables at Clearleft.
Tweeter Street
Portraits of people that tweet, what they tweet, where they tweet.
Designing the Wider Web
The dominance of the desktop browser is over – the web has become wider. After so long painting in a tiny corner of the canvas, it’s time to broaden our approach.
It’s understandable that the community is somewhat nervous about the changes ahead. So far, we’ve mostly responded by scratching around for device-specific tips, but this isn’t sustainable or scalable. We should transcend “platformism” and instead learn to design for diverse contexts, displays, connectivity, and inputs by breaking devices down into first principles. Instead of the defective dichotomy of the “desktop” and “mobile” web, designers should aim to create great user experiences using the truly fluid nature of the web.
danwebb.net - It’s About The Hashbangs
A superb post by Dan on the bigger picture of what’s wrong with hashbang URLs. Well written and well reasoned.
Developing the OAuth user experience at Twitter
Ben documents the improvements in Twitter’s OAuth flow. Maybe this will help to stop people blindly giving permission to dodgy third-party sites to update their Twitter stream.
LA Re-Sweet: @adactio -
Aw, this is quite sweet: a tweet of mine, put to music.
a world of tweets
A very pretty visualisation of tweets on a map using canvas.
Who Is Arcade Fire??!!?
Oh, dear. It seems that some people have not been notified.
ongoing by Tim Bray · Broken Links
Tim Bray calmly explains why hash-bang URLs are a very bad idea.
This is what we call “tight coupling” and I thought that anyone with a Computer Science degree ought to have been taught to avoid it.
isolani - Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
Excellent, excellent analysis of how URLs based on fragment identifier (a la Twitter/Gawker/Lifehawker) expose an unstable tottering edifice that crumbles at the first JavaScript error.
So why use a hash-bang if it’s an artificial URL, and a URL that needs to be reformatted before it points to a proper URL that actually returns content?
Out of all the reasons, the strongest one is “Because it’s cool”. I said strongest not strong.
Exquisite Tweets from @candicecbailey, @TreborFlow, @HannahLisaGreen, @kellymortlock, @gpcrc, @Pheebie, @helenium, @jameswarfield, @katieraby, @gromitski, @melstrutt, @racheljanejones, @LucindaGos, @davidstripinis, @LionessOfficial, @garretkeogh, @allieke
When fashion photography goes bad.
If You Didn’t Blog It, It Didn’t Happen - Anil Dash
A thoughtful piece on how Twitter can complement blogging, but is far too often used as an impermanent substitute.
…if you didn’t blog it, it didn’t happen. In fact, I first wrote about this idea a bit on Twitter a few years ago. See if you can find it.
Archive Fever: a love letter to the post real-time web | mattogle.com
Matt encapsulates a lot of what I've been thinking about recently: the real-time web is all well and good, but let's not forsake the enormous potential for fulfilment in archives.
Twitter Knitter
Send a tweet and get it knitted into a scarf that will then be given to someone who really needs it this Christmas.
Qwerly: API Documentation
It's down for me right now, but this API from Qwerly looks like a great addition to complement Google's Social Graph API — it finds rel="me" links from a Twitter username.
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker
A well-argued piece by Malcolm Gladwell on the relative pros and cons of weak-tie networks and strong-tie hierarchies ...although, as always, Gladwell relies on anecdotes more than data to make his point.
Eat Tweet | a twitter cookbook
Maureen's book is out and about. Get over 1000 bite-sized recipes.
What Was I Listening To? - Andy Smith
A cute little mashup: find out what you were listening to according to Last.fm when you were posting to Twitter.
haroon baig | projects | twitwee clock
A cute hardware hack: send a tweet with the word TwitweeClock, the hashtag #TwitweeClock, or the username @TwitweeClock, and this cuckoo clock will, well, cuckoo.
NYRblog - Atwood in the Twittersphere - The New York Review of Books
Margaret Atwood is all kinds of wonderful.
Techno-utopian fail - The National Newspaper
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you have created.
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever!
A quick way of leaving Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and MySpace. It uses the password anti-pattern but after using this, I guess you won't be needing that password again.
teafr - tea rotas from twitter lists
Organise tea-making duties in the office with Twitter lists. This could be very handy...
apophenia: spectacle at Web2.0 Expo... from my perspective
A vivid first-person description of danah boyd's talk at the Web 2.0 Expo. I have to say, I'm not entirely surprised that she had a such a humiliating experience at such a douchebaggy conference.
Snap Bird - re-finding the ones that got away
A very handy way of searching a Twitter user's timeline, courtesy of Remy.
Social Networks Aren't Good Businesses - washingtonpost.com
An interesting take on the business models of social networking sites.
HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment
A very pretty little Twitter canvas experiment accompanied by music delivered via the audio element. View this in a capable browser.
The Observer profile: Twitter - The tweet that shook the world | Technology | The Observer
Yet another journalist writing about Twitter. But Bobbie knows whereof he speaks. This is a good one.
Oh My Science — replacing god with reason... one tweet at a time
Humanist text replacement.
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live -- Printout -- TIME
Steven Johnson waxes lyrical on Twitter.
Twitter Status - Phishing scam
And this, boys and girls, is why the password anti-pattern is bad, m'kay?
Ping - Should Design Be Held Back by a Tyranny of Data? - NYTimes.com
Douglas is featured in The New York Times (and look: there's Dustin behind him).
Visible Tweets – Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettiness!
A visualisation of Twitter messages designed for display in public spaces. From the mad genius that is Cameron Adams.
Op-Ed Columnist - To Tweet or Not to Tweet - NYTimes.com
Hilarious interview with Ev and Biz from Twitter.
Dave Gorman: When Twitter Gets Weird...
Dave Gorman understands Twitter. Many do not.
EagleTweet
Allow your Twitter location to be automatically updated from FireEagle. The process of connecting you, FireEagle, and Twitter is beautiful: 1 x OpenID + 2 x OAuth.
"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
danah boyd addresses the Microsoft Research Tech Fest.
Epeus' epigone: A load of Thunderer
Kevin does an excellent job of Fisking that ludicrous anti-Twitter article in The Times.
Amanda L. French, Ph.D. » Blog Archive » Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter
Social networking Terms Of Service compared and contrasted.
Adam Franco.com » Blog Archive » Twitter Export Script
Archive your Twitter updates with this PHP script.
A daily diary of Depression-era life, told on Twitter.: The Social Path
This is wonderful: a line-a-day diary from the 1930s turned into a Twitter account. It's like a microblogging version of Pepys's journal via RSS.
140 Characters » How Twitter Was Born
Dom Sagolla tells the story of Twitter.
TweetEffect- When did you lose or gain twitter followers?
A little Twitter app from Christian ...that doesn't ask for your password.
Historical Tweets
Twitter through the ages.
Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Detecting and displaying the information of a logged-in twitter user
Clever or creepy? You decide.
How to Use Twitter for Marketing and PR
This site needs some promotion. Maybe on Twitter.
Twitter Status - Don't Click That Link!
Twitter's promotion of the password anti-pattern bites them on the ass.
Twitter-enhanced Dérive « Magical Nihilism
London becomes Everyware.
Twitter AWESOMENESS!!!
View source.
Interview @MarsPhoenix - Universe
An interview with Veronica McGregor, the human being behind the wonderful MarsPhoenix Twitter account.
Kvetch! Let it out, baby.
Kvetch is back, reborn as a Twitter barnacle app. Let it out, baby.
Cursebird: What the f#@! is everyone swearing about?
Cursebird is a realtime feed of people swearing on Twitter. Fuck, yeah!
Tweetersation
The last project from Simon and Nat is essentially a way of viewing groups (slices of activity) on Twitter ...and it exposes a security flaw in the JSON-P API too.
arielwaldman wiki / space
Ariel has put together a list of 100 space-related Twitter accounts.
Twitter is Penis
Taking innocent tweets and replacing the nouns with the word "penis".
Delighting with Data » tomtaylor.co.uk
Notes and slides from Tom Taylor's talk at Oxford Geek Night 7. It's a great collection of things that talk (or at least Twitter): Tower Bridge, asteroids, plants...
Twitter / MarsPhoenix: Are you ready to celebrate?...
In the future, all great scientific discoveries will be conveyed in 140 characters.
Twitter / MarsPhoenix
The Mars Phoenix probe is twittering its journey to the red planet.
twistori
Realtime visualisation of feelings on Twitter. I can't help but think that present continuous emotions would have yielded better results; loving, hating, thinking...
Headshift :: Twitter scepticism: justified or not?
Lee is a Twitter sceptic. Shun the unbeliever, shhuuuunnnnn!
How Egypt, U.S. got all a-Twitter over Cal student - Inside Bay Area
Twitter for great justice!
Twitter Friends Network Browser
Browse trough your twitter friends, and your friends' friends, and your friends' friends' friends...
Tweet Clouds
My Twitter folksonomy. I'm glad to see that present continuous verbs are the most used.
Design Idea » Twitter and the Crystal Goblet
Good design is invisible. Rebecca points out why Twitter is very good social design indeed.
Jeremy and Eric on the Acid 3 race - Slightly ajar - by David Storey
David has no sense of humour.
Jeremy Keith's twitter conversations - Quotably.com
Quotably offers a nice well-ordered interface onto Twitter conversations.
Twitter / SouthByScurvy
Quite a few people got sick after South by Southwest. There seems to be some kind of virus going around. Inevitably, the virus now has a Twitter account.
Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered | Geek Gestalt - A blog by Daniel Terdiman - CNET News.com
Check out this cool arduino project: input from the moisture level of a plant sends an SMS to Twitter so you know it needs to be watered.
StrawPoll—Tiny polls in 140 characters or less
Another "barnacle app" built on Twitter: answer a question, view the results. Cute.
Twitter / Greg: @stefsull - ok. for the res...
I've seen plenty of engagement announcements but I believe this may be the first ever proposal via Twitter. She said "yes".
Tweet what you eat!
Another nice barnacle app built on Twitter. Send direct messages to note what you've eaten... or tweeten.
Clichés are hard
An offhand remark I made on Twitter spurs Dom on to do a whole lotta research on character encoding in class names.
Tweets - Overheard.it
A "barnacle app" that pulls out all the overheard quotes from Twitter.
Foamee
Here's Dan's latest project (and of course it looks gorgeous). I've been testing it for a while before the official launch and it's really sweet. Best of all, there is no sign up. All the interaction happens through Twitter. Clever.
The Global Sympathetic Audience - New York Times
An article about Twitter focusing on one threatened suicide and one averted break-up. Leisa and her excellent phrase "ambient intimacy" are quoted.
Tracking the quake on Twitter | mad dog in the fog
There was a quake in San Francisco last night. The correct response to this situation is to Twitter it.
Twitter / cookbook
Recipes in 140 characters or less.
Twitter Blog: Tracking Twitter
Twitter introduces the ability to get alerted by phone or IM when keywords are mentioned. A nice little unobtrusive feature.
The Man in Blue > There are no social networks
Cameron's plea for social network transparency and portability is one of the most lucid and succinct yet.
Twitter Blocks
A lovely visual of contacts of your Twitter contacts, exploring those six degrees.
Digital Web Magazine - Hacking on Open APIs
The second part of Gareth's series for Digital Web on APIs. This time he's got some PHP code samples for parsing XML and JSON.
LOL: Twitter / Jeremy Keith
I'm loving this mashup of lolcats, Twitter and Flickr. Occasionally the text and the picture matches up in a serendipitously hilarious way.
stuckUnstuck
Here's a simple little way to blow off steam with some micro-updates. You can even do it from Twitter. Nice.
sixtwothree.org » Ameriganzapalooza
Track Cindy and Jason on their trip across the country... mashup style.
Twitterverse
A new project from Idea Codes (Emily Chang and Max Kiesler): a tag cloud for Twitter.
Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing? - Newsweek Steven Levy - MSNBC.com
A nicely succinct and surprisingly accurate article on Newsweek all about Twitter.
Twitter (kottke.org)
Jason Kottke likes Twitter too.
memespring | Twitter watcher
Another fun toy that uses Twitter's API, this one from Richard Pope.
twittervision
A mesmerising mashup of Twitter and Google Maps. I could watch this all day.
disambiguity - » If it wasn’t for Twitter I wouldn’t be here…
How a Twitter from me saved Leisa's ass.
Twitter / Ackbar
Now Admiral Ackbar is on Twitter too. "It's a traaaap!"
disambiguity - » Ambient Intimacy
An absolutely brilliant summation by Leisa Reichelt that nails Twitter's appeal: ambient intimacy.
Index of /twitapi
Aral just posted his extensions to the Twitter API.