Twitter Timeline App
January 27, 2011
Twitter App in Two Days
Diego Buthay, a developer for IndexTank, had the mad skills to quickly make a Twitter application says, “How I Wrote a Twitter Timeline Search App in Two Days” via the IndexTank blog. While the title explains the story’s exciting part, Buthay explains how he created the FriendTweets app.
“My goal was to find a way to search tweets from the users I follow. I also didn’t want to spend too much time on it. This quick ramp up is what IndexTank is all about.”
He started with Sinatra, hacked the program, and then used IndexTank as a search backend. He had a rudimentary app, but it worked. He tweaked the app a bit more using Heroku and within twelve hours had the app he wanted. It’s amazing how easy it is to make a program from scratch and then release it to the Internet wilds. Will this trend of apps being made by individuals continue for years to come? Another thing, this app is useful in the fading of free real time search.
Whitney Grace, February 27, 2011
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