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Using Twitter for Messaging
Dave’s given his podcatcher a Twitter account. So, if you’re interested, you can subscribe to notices, via Twitter, of what Dave’s downloading.
“So what?” I hear you ask. You may not care what Dave’s listening to, but chances are, someone does. Moreover, Dave’s using Twitter as a messaging endpoint in what Rohit Khare calls a “syndication oriented architecture,” or SynOA. Jon Udell and Rohit talked about this on IT Conversations a few weeks ago.
I’m using Twitter in a similar way in my class this semester. My students are writing servers that send updates to a Twitter account via the Twitter API. Anyone can then subscribe to those updates through RSS, via SMS, or simply by going to the Web page. Easy, simple, and pretty effective.
Posted by windley on October 2, 2007 11:11 AM
