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WordPress.com Implements the Twitter API

Posted by kdawson on from the what-comes-after-embrace-and-extend dept.

This morning Matt Mullenweg announced on his blog that WordPress.com has enabled posting and reading blogs via the Twitter API. Now any Twitter app that supports a custom API URL (Tweetie is one such) can be used to either post updates to a WordPress.com blog, or to read updates from blogs to which one has subscribed. Dave Winer calls the move by Automattic, WordPress.com's parent company, "deeply insidious," and notes that 10 years ago he did a similar thing in his Manila blogging platform when the Blogger API came out. Winer opines that Automattic's move has made the Twitter API into an open standard, due to WordPress.com's large base. Winer notes (in a comment on the above-linked post), "The fun starts if they [WordPress] relax some of the limits of the Twitter API and fix some of the glaring problems."

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  1. Is this another WP security hole? by Ice+Station+Zebra · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Probably....

    So who will be the first to use it?

  2. Re:Misleading summary... by nhaines · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Frankly, I'd much rather see OpenMicroBlogging being used and promoted rather than the Twitter API. It's used in StatusNet and identi.ca and allows for seamless subscriptions between various OpenMicroBlogging-enabled sites. It's sort of like the XMPP/Jabber of microblogging.

    StatusNet also supports the Twitter API, but I don't know of any clients that let me point to identi.ca instead of Twitter. I use Gwibber, though which natively supports both of them and more.

  3. Finally a use for Twitter I can support... by Phrogman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It will let me post to my blog. I have a Twitter account only because I was interested to see how it worked. I have made exactly 2 Tweets. Once I realized i would need friends who cared what I was doing, I realized it wasn't for me. I am happily living a rather dull existence :)

    I have just realized a hitch with using this for updating my blog: I don't have a blog, and with few friends who would want to read it, not much reason to start one.

    I know its old fashioned but if I think of interesting things to say, I say them to my wife or my friends face to face :P

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    "The first time I got drunk, I got married. The second time I bought a chimpanzee, after that I stayed sober" Arian Seid
  4. Why not identi.ca? by TeXMaster · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm surprised these open source project haven't implemented the open source microblogging standard put forth by status.net (former laconi.ca). Its ability to handle cross-site microblogging is rather interesting and more appropriate for these platforms, IMO.

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    "I'm never quite so stupid as when I'm being smart" (Linus van Pelt)