12 February 2008
TwitterThreads
Last night I went a little crazy and decided to try my hand at using the twitter API for something.
I love twitter, and much of the time the group stream of consciousness that is displayed is great, but… there are times when following a conversation can be a little tough.
I have found myself wishing that there were a way to sort it into easier to follow pieces.
So i figured that would be a good place to start. What I ended up with is TwitterThreads.com.
The idea here is to connect the dots of the @replies in your twitter stream.
(click)Above is a screenshot of a threaded conversation I was having with Josh Bancroft this morning that illustrates fairly well what that looks like.
If you’ve somehow never heard of Twitter, check it out.
Twitter rocks.
Cheers,
Matt Beck
Partner, CouldBe Studios
4 Comments currently posted.
TwitterThreads, need I say more? | Tempest's Blog says:
Brett says:
Cool! What did you use to build this?
Matt says:
TwitterThreads is a pretty straightforward little PHP app.
The whole thing consists of 2 .php scripts and 1 .css file.
Micro G - The original digital rebellion - String Theory says:
[...] Every once in a while you see someone create something whose concept is so simple you ask yourself “why didn’t i think of that?” Well today was no different, and the great news is that the person happens to be from our very own Jessica Beck ‘s partner in crime, Matt Beck. He decided to play around with the Twitter API and came up with TwitterThreads . It does as the name suggests; threads twitter posts. Unaware of this at the time I had unwittingly posted a question of the day just minutes prior and came to realization that I wouldn’t be able to see of the responses to my question given the hour (almost bed time). Now, thanks to Rick Turoczy’s mention on Twitter, I checked out TwitterThreads . After a quick login, there was my question and all of the replies to it in threaded format. Due to the amount of people I follow this is one hell of a nice improvement. How simple, how easy, how useful. Great work Matt! Read more about it on What Could Be . [...]
[...] Every once in a while you see someone create something whose concept is so simple you ask yourself “why didn’t i think of that?” Well today was no different, and the great news is that the person happens to be from our very own Jessica Beck‘s partner in crime, Matt Beck. He decided to play around with the Twitter API and came up with TwitterThreads. It does as the name suggests; threads twitter posts. Unaware of this at the time I had unwittingly posted a question of the day just minutes prior and came to realization that I wouldn’t be able to see of the responses to my question given the hour (almost bed time). Now, thanks to Rick Turoczy’s mention on Twitter, I checked out TwitterThreads. After a quick login, there was my question and all of the replies to it in threaded format. Due to the amount of people I follow this is one hell of a nice improvement. How simple, how easy, how useful. Great work Matt! Read more about it on What Could Be. [...]