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Twitter Mailing Functionality
8.4.2009

I had to jump on the Twitter bandwagon to enter a contest and must admit - I'm quite frustrated with the features that are present. Twitter seems to be mostly SMS driven in a world of emerging (and free!... with data plan) PUSH email. Therefore, since I refuse to pay extra for SMS, I must log in to check for @reply's to my tweets. Also, I can't just send a quick email update to Twitter on my mobile device, but rather have to log into their web interface on my painfully slow mobile device.

Anyway - I have started a small project to hopefully rectify Twitter's shortcomings over here. It is a small Python daemon which scrapes your Twitter RSS feed for @reply's and relays them using your GMail account. Hopefully I will have something implemented soon that allows it to post tweets as well (and integrate the Twitter Python API).

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mcrittenden , 1 year, 3 months ago
Twitter can't help it that Rails failed them.
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swilly , 1 year, 3 months ago
It will be interesting to see how switching their backend to Scala works out.

I still don't understand why they didn't add some more basic functionality on Rails. It would have been so easy to implement - most of the infrastructure is already there with the SMS capability.
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