Friday, January 16, 2009
New tool: TwitBlog for LiveBlogging with Twitter
I've been diving back into the world of journalism because a) I miss it and b) I've been hired by Lincoln Loop to help work on the Knight News Foundation funded project Populous (www.populousproject.com). So naturally I dove straight into the project by taking a look at what's going on in the community. One of the community members I follow is Chris Amico, a professional journalist who just released a quick and simple Django utility web app for turning your Twitter feed into blog posts. It's called Twitblog. Check it out. I could see a few additional features being employed to make it even more useful, but it's a good start.
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Chris Amico said…
Hey, glad you like it. The current iteration took about two hours to build (after thinking about the problem much longer) so it's definitely an early beta. Send any and all feature requests my way (eyeseast at gmail is best).
At the moment, it's just a form, feedparser.py and the Twitter Search API with no database back end at all, so nothing gets stored. I'm thinking of good ways to save a few settings to make it easier to plan ahead. Also trying to decide if I should reproduce more of the tweet, such as timestamps and avatars.
Again, any and all suggestions, bug reports and feature requests are welcome. Thanks for the plug. Hope people find it useful.