On 10/19/2012 03:38 PM, Paula OCF wrote:
My understanding is that Twitter uses open source software, but has not
open sourced Twitter. They recently OS'd Clutch.io.
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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
<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>
For clarity on what was slightly confusing to us...the article says:
"Fortunately for us, the app was written almost entirely in Objective C,
which meant that we'd be able to examine some of the app's source code
as it was written by Twitter's very own engineers; usually, when
disassembling C/C++ binaries, source code loses its original naming
symbology, but Objective-C preserves a lot of symbols which makes it
easier to follow along."
Then goes on to show how they investigated the code:
"Using a nifty tool called class-dump, we began examining the contents
of Twitter.app and how it was designed."
I think the question is...because of the way the code was presenting,
did this allow the folks "hacking" on this to do this sort of discovery
and is there an open source angle to that?
Thanks,
Jason
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