The micro-messaging service Twitter has been remarkably stable over the past several weeks following prolonged periods of downtime and wonkiness. Recently, as former stalwarts Gmail , Amazon S3 and even Netflix have gone down, Twitter has endured. As such, it’s taken a moment to bestow a new title on one of its top developers: Alex Payne will now be the official API Lead.
The fact that people are getting promoted within Twitter rather than fired is definitely a good sign. Payne has been leading the service’s API development for about a year and a half now, as the Twitter Blog notes . Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has said in the past that the Twitter API is the way most people connect to the service . In fact, he’s said its traffic is 20 times larger than that of the actual website itself.
Given the rate Twitter’s website is growing , those API usage numbers must be scary. Perhaps that is why Payne will now have someone under him, Matt Sanfor...
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“mmmm burned nigger babies….delicious. That’s my favorite kind of baby!” - Konstantine The “nigger” posts are coming out of the woodwork on Twitter, following Obama’s election. If you’re not quite ready for bed, why not consider spam-blocking some ignorant fucks? From the Twitter Blog : “When you block a spam account, we take note—when more people start blocking a spam account, we go to red alert. Blocking also puts that account out of sight... more
Twitter may implement support for the OpenMicroblogging standard, a function that will allow users on any supported service to subscribe to users on other sites running the standard.
Jesse Stay stumbled upon the revelation in the Twitter bug report system, with Alex Payne, API Lead for Twitter changing to accepted a bug request titled “OpenMicroblogging Support”.
For practical use, Twitter supporting OpenMicroblogging will allow users of services such as Identi.ca to follow ... more
Twitter4J is an open-sourced and mavenizable Java library for the Twitter API which is released under a BSD-style license.
Twitter4J 1.1.0 includes small bug fixes and its memory foot print has been dramatically improved. ... more
The Twitter Election header is awkward enough if you’re European, but with the mentions of Hitler as a hot topic, the users of the microblogging service are really pushing it.
A simple search on Twitter Search proves that there’s some kind of rumor going on about Palin supporters comparing Obama with Hitler. In less than an hour, this nonsense is a hot topic. What about health care people?
[Hat tip to Woutr ]
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In about a half-hour I think I’ll crack open a pumpkin beer. Or two. #
The “Jelly Belly” jelly beans that are yellow with dark spots are infected sinus flavored. I’m sure of it. #
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Imagine being a sports fan looking forward to an evening of live coverage on the radio of your team playing a game and instead of just getting the coverage of the game you’re interested in, you hear coverage of multiple games, with sportscasters taking turns sentence by sentence, reporting on the game they’re witnessing.
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Facebook , the popular Palo Alto-based social networking site, can’t stay out of controversy. The latest one may blow over sooner than later.
Today, a Media Week article said Facebook would unveil a new ad feature that sounded pretty far out and gutsy, even for a company that is trying to run a business: A sponsored advertisement on a person’s profile updates (Facebook calls these updates a “news feed”) which, when a person clicked on it, “their enti... more
Podshow , a company that promotes podcasts and finds sponsors for them, has raised $15 million more in a second round of venture capital from its big-name investors, following up on $8.85 million in a first round last summer.
Dan Primack has the scoop .
This is, frankly, surprising, because the business model still hasn’t been proven for this medium. This is a lot of money. There are other players out there, too, like Odeo ( funding from Charles River & others &#... more
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San Francisco start-up BuzzLogic is trying to help you sort through the blog clutter. If you’re a marketer or PR person, how do you really know who is an influential blogger and who is not?
BuzzLogic just launched at the DEMO conference, and is homing in on this “influencer” question.
The company seeks to define who is shaping specific conversations in blogs with “algorithms” that analyze relationships, based on four criteria :
–overa... more
FBI investigators want to charge two men for spying in Silicon Valley to benefit China, and they say it is just the tip of a massive effort by the Chinese government to set up front companies to do this sort of thing.
In the latest case, they say Lan Lee, an American citizen, and Yoefei Ge, a Chinese national, stole chip designs and software from their employers NetLogic Microsystems of Mountain View and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. in San Jose, and planned to go into business wi... more
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