Scripting News: When Twitter is down... (Scripting News)
Dr Todd Fiegel
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the lead, Dave. Sad, though, when a service that is so popular repeatedly goes down and others have to rise to fill the void. Still, that others do rise is a real credit to their innovation.
My thought also: setting up a service that relies on the downtime of another service is weird enough, but doing so when such a backup service already exists is double weird !
Fred Brunel
· 1 year ago
That's interesting but I think it's not that usefull until they natively support the Twitter API; so that 3rd party tools can post directlty to twitabit.com (acting as a proxy).
dave
· 1 year ago
That is the Twitter API. They do support it. Look again.
Fred Brunel
· 1 year ago
Ah right, nice.
It's seems they only support 1 function of the Twitter API so it's not a complete proxy. Most 3rd party app can't route only 1 function call a different URL — or do they "map" other URL back to the Twitter API?
Ken Hudak
· 1 year ago
I think it's a great redundant layer - mainly for the recipients of information from Twitter. I say that because many of us rely on the folks at conferences and such to be tweeting breaking news on the fly. So instead of a posters original thought being lost, it's just queued in TwitAbit!
delfuego
· 1 year ago
Why should users trust their Twitter passwords to Twitabit? Am I the only person that's not only concerned about this -- typing my password for site A into site B -- but also concerned that Twitabit doesn't even have a privacy policy that could *help* me be OK with this?
Amanda
· 1 year ago
Since June I am not using Twitter at all. But this microblog is missing its importance to me.
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It's seems they only support 1 function of the Twitter API so it's not a complete proxy. Most 3rd party app can't route only 1 function call a different URL — or do they "map" other URL back to the Twitter API?