TwitterToEmail. Convert Tweets to Emails with Google AppsScript. People and organizations start using Twitter today for general public announcements or as a primary communication channel in closed communities. For example, I use Twitter when I want to share a story with my students or announce a newly available studying material. But what do you do if there are some people who do not want to use Twitter and still rely on email communication? By using Twitter API and Google AppsScript you can write and run a simple mashup that sends an email anytime you post a new message on Twitter. Google AppsScript is a JavaScript cloud scripting language that allows you to automate tasks across Google products and third party services. You can use Google AppsScript to write custom functions and utilize interfaces for Google core services such as email, Calendar, Contacts, or Maps.
You can call any RESTful or SOAP Web API, parse JSON and XML data, process that data and populate a spreadsheet with results. ‘Torrent Tweets’ Marries BitTorrent to Twitter | Epicenter The latest version of the BitTorrent file sharing software allows users to discuss what they're downloading using automatically created Twitter hashtags that correspond to each shared file. Peer-to-peer file sharing is getting its hooks into Twitter, thanks to an update from BitTorrent, the company that makes the popular µTorrent client and which is seeking to make a big, legitimate business from a protocol most associated with copyright infringement. Despite its name, peer-to-peer file sharing is often a solitary pursuit, where users’ computers swap bits of files, while the users themselves remain anonymous to one another.
BitTorrent is hoping to make this more social by using Twitter to make it easy for people downloading and uploading the same file to talk about it. This system works by creating a unique Twitter hashtag using bit torrent’s own infohash, a unique identifier that fingerprints every file shared via BitTorrent. The "traditional retweet" : the key to conversation & visibility. Updated Sept. 3, 2013 Ironically, the most important feature on Twitter is one that Twitter itself did not develop, and has never adopted: the traditional retweet. It was developed by the customers, on their own, and not by the company. And amazingly, to this date Twitter itself has never incorporated it, although doing so would be as easy as pie. My advice to all Twitter users is that you should not use what Twitter calls a "retweet". It is a counterfeit, and does not have any of the key properties of a retweet. Just skip it. The true, traditional "retweet" is the life blood of Twitter, and what has set it apart from other similar "microblogging" services.
Here's how to do a traditional retweet if you're accessing Twitter at twitter.com: 1. 2. I.e. it should start out like this: "RT @Username " [Easier way: If you're using Firefox or Chrome as your browser, you can use the "Classic Retweet" button supplied by Jon Pierce's add-on "Classic Retweet 1.0". Why did Twitter do this? Conclusion 1. HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter. Retweeting is an integral part of the Twitter experience. The retweet (or "RT") allows Twitter users to share the best links, tweets, and gems they find from others using the service. But for beginners, it's not immediately obvious what retweets are, or what tools to use to make retweeting easier. This HOW TO article not only covers the basics of retweeting, but also highlights some of the best web and mobile-based tools for retweeting and tracking RTs in real-time. If you're a Twitter beginner, we hope you find it useful; if you're a more advanced user, we hope you'll share it with friends who are just starting out. 1.
Retweeting is how Twitter users share interesting tweets from the people they are following. . - The Twitter user @benparr tweets: I just heard that Apple is releasing new iPods in July! 2. Once you've gotten used to retweeting and seen some excellent retweets in your Twitter stream, you may want to track retweets on a larger scale. 3. 4. The coolest part? 5. Twitter. History Creation and initial reaction Twitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Dorsey, then an undergraduate student at New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.[15][16] The original project code name for the service was twttr, an idea that Williams later ascribed to Noah Glass,[17] inspired by Flickr and the five-character length of American SMS short codes.
The developers initially considered "10958" as a short code, but later changed it to "40404" for "ease of use and memorability. ...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The first Twitter prototype, developed by Dorsey and contractor Florian Weber, was used as an internal service for Odeo employees[20] and the full version was introduced publicly on July 15, 2006.[8] With Twitter, it wasn't clear what it was. Reaction at the conference was highly positive. Growth Leadership. Live Twitter XSS. It's one of these days where I just had one of these "Oh no... " moments when I logged into my Twitter account and suddenly a message box with my cookie popped up. Apparently, there is an actively exploited XSS vulnerability on Twitter. From my first preliminary analysis, you'll have to hover over a link to activate it and so far I have just seen some proof of concepts from people I follow.
However, this vulnerability looks at least semi-wormable, so better turn JavaScript off on Twitter for now! Update (14:05 CEST): This vulnerability is confirmed to be exploitable with no user interaction automatically. Update 2 (14:13 CEST): It is possible to load secondary JavaScript from an external URL with no user interaction, which makes this definitely wormable and dangerous. Update 3 (14:24 CEST): Worm code for this vulnerability has been posted on IRC, making the rounds. Update 4 (14:36 CEST): Worm is live already... Twitter Closes Web Hole After Attack Hits Up to 500,000. New Twitter Gets New Search - ReadWriteCloud. What Twitter’s t.co Means for Link Shortener APIs.
Top 10 Things Every Twitter Developer Should Know. The upcoming Chirp conference organized by Twitter is bound to interest a new group of developers. Getting up to speed with a new API can take some research, but Twitter makes it easy with a handy list. The Things Every Developer Should Know page lists ten items, mostly technical in nature.
And like any list for developers, it properly begins with number zero. The contents of the FAQThere are actually three APIsYou cannot make unlimited calls, follow requests, updates or direct messageThe API is entirely HTTP-basedThe API is a RESTful resourceParameters have certain expectationsThere are pagination limitsEncoding affects status character countA command line is all you need to use the Twitter API There are Twitter API libraries for almost any language. Be sure to read the full list to get the details of each. Some, such as the FAQ item, point to other resources. Among the important reminders are rate and pagination limits.