Category Archives: twitter api

"Don’t Worry About It – It’s Going to be Awesome, and You’re Gonna Love It"

Posted on April 14, 2010 by jessestay

I’m currently sitting in the audience at Chirp, Twitter’s developer conference where they are anticipated to be revealing their plans for the future and overall strategies from here forward.  One of the big announcements so far was from Biz Stone, … Continue reading →

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Twitter Testing "OAuth Delegation" With Select Partners – Genius

Posted on February 5, 2010 by jessestay

A common complaint amongst Twitter developers has been that Twitter’s OAuth, the authentication process you see when you click the Twitter login button on a 3rd party website and go to a Twitter-looking page with a “Allow” or “Deny” button, … Continue reading →

Posted in api, authentication, delegation, Geeky, oauth, plain-text, Technology, Twitter, twitter api | 28 Comments

Twitter, It’s Time to Open Source Your API

Posted on December 17, 2009 by jessestay

With the recent launch of a “Twitter API” by both Automattic (WordPress.com) and Tumblr, it is evident that developers have a need to implement similar APIs, on similar platforms, reducing the effort to retrieve data from multiple platforms in a … Continue reading →

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Where is Twitter’s Emergency Response System?

Posted on May 31, 2009 by jessestay

The buzz has been swirling around the Twitter developer-sphere about a bug that has been going on for almost a full day now.  Louis Gray reported it first at around 12am MST last night, and the first post to the Twitter … Continue reading →

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Twitter API Lead Changes Priorities With New Book

Posted on October 27, 2008 by jessestay

UPDATE: Be sure to see Alex’s comment below for his view on this. I am a huge fan of Twitter, regardless of what I say or ever complain about. As a developer of Twitter apps, I want to see it … Continue reading →

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Twitter Bringing Rate Limits Back to Normal

Posted on July 8, 2008 by jessestay

On the heels of a post this morning by Biz Stone, it appears Twitter is beginning to bring the rate limit for posts through the Twitter API back to the 70 per hour it used to be. For the last … Continue reading →

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Twitter Continues to Fail Developers, Why They Will Still Succeed

Posted on June 27, 2008 by jessestay

I’m going to dub this Part 2 of my Twitter Love/Hate fest – this should be my last installment for awhile on this topic, I hope. In reality, I really love Twitter. I have a good network on Twitter and … Continue reading →

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TalkingHeadTV Interviews Me About the Twitter Developer Dilemma

Posted on June 21, 2008 by jessestay

This morning Justin R. Young of TalkingHeadTV interviewed me via webcam (couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the yellow whitebalance on my webcam – I’m really not that yellow!), and asked some great questions in follow up to … Continue reading →

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Developers Bailing on Twitter

Posted on June 19, 2008 by jessestay

I’ve been following various development mailing lists lately, and I’m seeing a trend of developers starting to bail on Twitter. This is a scary thought, because when the developers bail, so will the users. It all started with a conversation … Continue reading →

Posted in fail whale, FriendFeed, net::twitter, OSS, Perl, Social Media, Twitter, twitter api, twitter development, twitter problems | 558 Comments

Twitter Kills Important Features on the API With Just a Few Hours Notice

Posted on May 31, 2008 by jessestay

I saw some very concerning issues on the Twitter development list today, and my frustration has only been increased after reading some of the claims of Blaine Cooke today on TechCrunch. Yesterday, the one thing that seemed evident, and perhaps … Continue reading →

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