Educer » api http://www.educer.org cooler than educr Tue, 18 May 2010 02:57:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The (De) Construction Of Twitter http://www.educer.org/2009/12/22/the-de-construction-of-twitter/ http://www.educer.org/2009/12/22/the-de-construction-of-twitter/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:50:54 +0000 jeremy http://www.educer.org/?p=182 $new_standard = strtolower("Twitter");

In the last couple of weeks, both WordPress and Tumblr have announced support for the Twitter API.

The immediate benefits are that any forward thinking Twitter client can now also be a WordPress or Tumblr client as well. Tweetie, one of the most popular iPhone clients, has had support for this for a while and immediately became the tool of choice for testing the new features out. Choices for users expand.

So, with that development aside, where next? I see three things.

1) WordPress should publish an official plugin for WordPress.org that enables the Twitter API for any blog. This act alone could create millions of possible twitter servers.

2) WordPress/Tumblr should make a big deal about how their new changes are also already tied in with real time protocols RSSCloud and pubsubhubbub. This helps make the new twitter servers real time.

3) Everybody outside of Twitter should huddle for a brief second and add some new syntax to the existing twitter api that allows for a piece of metadata to be attached (urls to start), call it optional, and implement.

Or, in short– Now that you’ve shown how easy it is to implement Twitter’s API, rip it out of their hands, build a new community, and then market the hell out of it.

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