Hey Jennifer, I read the article and what the author did was decompile the Twitter-for-Mac client, extract the URL where the tweets are being fed and noticed that Twitter has 2 different APIs (despite them claiming that there's only one).
Nothing open sourcey about this though it was quite interesting. Regards, On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paula OCF <phun...@outercurve.org> wrote: > My understanding is that Twitter uses open source software, but has not > open sourced Twitter. They recently OS'd Clutch.io. > > Paula Hunter | Executive Director | Outercurve Foundation > www.outercurve.org | 781-876-6227 (o) | 978-764-2037 (m) > > twitter: huntermkt, outercurve | skype: hunterpaula > > > > On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Jennifer Wike wrote: > > We believe that the author of this article was able to discover this > separate feed for promoted tweets because Twitter's code is open source, > but we aren't sure. Can anyone from the community confirm and help us > understand? > > > http://www.fastcompany.com/3002016/reverse-engineering-twitter-solve-advertising-mystery?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company%29 > > -- > *Jen Wike* > Editor, Writer > w: jen.io > c: 704.437.1730 > e: jenn.w...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter > > Osdc-list mailing list > Osdc-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter > > Osdc-list mailing list > Osdc-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list > -- Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno Desarrollador de Sistemas Abiertos Sitio: http://proyectofedora.org/mexico
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