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Native Retweets

Users of Twitter created the idiom "RT @suchnsuch said sumfink", and as with @ replies, RT's have been rolled in to Twitter's architecture. Now we have, what I think should be called, the native retweet. It was turned on for early users and more of the "twittersphere" is getting the feature now. Certainly the [...]

Twitpic API for getting pictures out

I've been using Twitpic either via TwitterFon on my iPhone or Tweetie from my desktop for Twitter, but one thing struck me last night: Twitpic doesn't allow me to get my content back out. So here's my fix: http://twitpicapi.appspot.com/

Twivatar, a Twitter avatar API

Domain dead; native API available Due to a number of factors, twivatar.org is no longer active (the domain was in fact doomed) - however Twitter stepped up, and now there's an API to get the avatar directly from them: http://twitter.com/api/users/profile_image/rem - so no longer any need for twivatar anyway. I've built a number of [...]

jQuery API Update: offline and anywhere

I've been beavering away at the API behind the scenes for a little while, and if you follow me on Twitter you've probably already seen the API browser has already been upgraded. The key change I've made is to de-couple the API search engine from the front end. What this has resulted in, is a [...]

jQuery API Browser

Ever since jQuery 1.1.3 the old API browser hasn't been updated due to incompatibilities in the documentation (though that's mostly assumptions). Although the new docs is comprehensive, I've always liked the quick access the old API browser gave. As such, I've got about my own way re-building an API browser based on the new documentation. Check [...]

TinyURL JavaScript API

I've been writing a bookmarklet for Twitter that will allow you to post URLs to Twitter, that are first compressed using TinyURL. So I thought I'd share the TinyURL callback API I wrote.