Great idea Abraham! I'm Jonathan Markwell I first experimented with the the API in in Summer 2007 when I made our office Nabaztag Rabbit speak all the tweets in my timeline (it wasn't long before it was thrown out the window). I pay the bills as an independent Ruby on Rails developer, mostly working on Twitter integrations.
I'm really interested in the challenges of scaling developer communities and have just started a series of blog posts on the topic here: http://blog.jot.is/the-unsolved-scaling-challenge I enjoy organising real world developer events and activities inspired by the barcamp, coworking, hack space and seed accelerator movements mostly in Brighton and London in the UK. These include: The Twitter Developer Nest: http://twitterdevelopernest.com WarbleCamp - The Twitter Developer Unconference: http://warblecamp.com Developer Mission - A group of UK hackers travelling to Chirp: http://developermission.com The Skiff coworking space: http://theskiff.org BootCycle - Peer support for early stage technology products: http://bootcycle.com BarCampBrighton: http://barcampbrighton.org Please let me know if you are interested in participating in any of the above or replicating them in your part of the world. The feature I'd most like to see added to the API is a way for us to add freeform metadata to tweets and users. This would enable the developer community to experiment with the potential of new features enabling us to innovate in the same way that users have with notations such as @ and #. I'm also working on my own app called Smidgn which is an approach to achieving some of the benefits the above feature would provide. Looking forward to meeting many of you at Chirp, I'm also travelling to SXSWi for the first time this year, would be great to meet any of you that are there. @jot On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > We have not had an introductions thread in a long time (or ever that I could > find) so I'm starting one. Don't forget to add an answer to the tools thread > [1](Gmail link [2]) as well. > I'm Abraham Williams, I've been working with the Twitter API and this group > since early 2008. I do mostly freelance Drupal and Twitter API integration > and personal projects. I love seeing the creative projects developers build > or integrate with the API and look forward to meeting many of you at Chirp. > TwitterOAuth [3] the first PHP library to support OAuth is built and > maintained by me, and will hopefully see a new release soon. I also built a > fun Chrome extension [4] that integrates common friends and followers into > Twitter profiles. > The feature I would most like added to the API is a conversation method to > get replies to a specific status. > So. Who are you, what do you do, what have you built, and what feature do > you most want to see added? > @Abraham > [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/c7cdaa0840f0de84/ > [2] https://mail.google.com/mail/#inbox/12680cd0fa59011e > [3] https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/npdjhmblakdjfnnajeomfbogokloiggg > [4] http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=142 > -- > Abraham Williams | Community Advocate | http://abrah.am > Project | Out Loud | http://outloud.labs.poseurtech.com > This email is: [ ] shareable [x] ask first [ ] private. > Sent from Seattle, WA, United States -- Jonathan Markwell Engineer | Founder | Connector Inuda Innovations Ltd, Brighton, UK Web application development & support Twitter & Facebook integration specialists http://inuda.com Organising the world's first events for the Twitter developer Community http://TwitterDeveloperNest.com Providing a nice little place to work in the middle of Brighton - http://theskiff.org Measuring your brand's visibility on the social web - http://HowSociable.com mob: 07766 021 485 | tel: 01273 704 549 | fax: 01273 376 953 skype: jlmarkwell | twitter: http://twitter.com/jot
