Twitter connects to Gnip
More movement in micro-blogging!
Recall that Gnip is a ping syndicator, sort of weblogs.com on steroids. Not the simplest of APIs, but apparently quite powerful. I tried to get some code running with it, but hit a hard wall that I couldn’t get past. No matter, others are successfully adapting to Gnip.
I just read this announcement on Twitter from Eric Marcoullier pointing to a TechCrunch piece. Eric says: “It’s official: Twitter is pushing to Gnip and Gnip is pushing it the fuck out to everyone!” But this is kind of contradicted in the TC piece, which says you can only get updates from users you specify. You can’t connect up on the same (firehose) basis that Summize was connecting before they were acquired by Twitter (earlier this week).
Like I said: So much movement. (There’s more coming.)
One thing’s for sure is that being open to developers is very much a competitive issue. This is why two-party systems work in technology and one-party systems stagnate. Why, when Netscape dominated browsers nothing moved, and it was fun while Microsoft and Netscape were competing, and why we returned to stagnation when Netscape folded, and why it’s once again interesting now that Firefox is flourishing. Same thing in the competition betw Twitter and identi.ca.
When I talked with Evan Prodromou yesterday he said they would open up their XMPP back-end to anyone and everyone without limits. Now it’s up to them to make good on that, and this shoudl give Twitter the incentive to go all the way with Gnip. BTW, Gnip should be agnostic, they should work with identi.ca as well as with Twitter.
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