Oliver Thylmann's Stuff

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This is What a Tweet Looks Like

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fun to see what huge volumes of data are in there.

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Posted April 24, 2010
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Yahoo Launches SQL Interface to Twitter | Stay N' Alive

The new YQL set of tables for Twitter enables any developer to use simple SQL-like queries to retrieve and post Twitter data.
via staynalive.com

interesting, even though for real stuff I would not want one api between apis but for quick hacks ...

Filed under  //   api   twitter   yahoo  
Posted February 13, 2010
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Post and Read via Twitter API on WordPress.com

We’ve enabled posting to and reading of WordPress.com blogs via the Twitter API. Any app that allows you to set a custom API URL will work. This project came out of our Quebec meetup and was developed by Team 55 (Andy, Terry, and Raphael).
via en.blog.wordpress.com

Oh this is really nice. I just converted my wordpress blog to the P2 Theme and I suddenly have my own twitter ;)

Filed under  //   open   twitter   wordpress  
Posted December 30, 2009
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Betting that Brizzly will be huge, ex-Googlers are working on things

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/11/brizzly.html

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Brizzly does look interesting but I tried and didn’t see it as a lot better than the Twitter website and namvu is still my facorite client on the mac next to tweetie on the…

Filed under  //   api   twitter  
Posted November 20, 2009
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Twitter Confirms Plans for Paid Accounts

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/JDTIZgRNd-U/

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People would pay to add their own analytics and if they give more granular stats even more so.
Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone has confirmed the introduction of paid-for business…

Filed under  //   monetization   twitter  
Posted November 20, 2009
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Twitter COO Dick Costolo: Revenue is on and advertising is coming soon

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Venturebeat/~3/RbzmF1jFW2k/

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very nice interview with costolo.

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Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at the Real-Time CrunchUp in San Francisco. I’m taking some notes as we go.

The big takeaways are…

Filed under  //   revenue   twitter  
Posted November 20, 2009
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What has changed  ? Quite a bit, but lets start with this.  TWITTER IS SURPASSING  GOOGLE as a destination for finding information on breaking and recent news  of all types. Whats more,   TWITTER POSSES NO THREAT to any destination news site. 140 characters does not a story make.

Rupert Murdoch to Block Google = Smart = Twitter has changed it all. « blog maverick - Very wise words by Mark Cuban!

Filed under  //   future   traffic   twitter  
Posted November 9, 2009
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