Twitter

The world of blogging hasn't really changed over the last few years, and web users are blogging just as much as they always have. One thing that seems to have changed is comments.

A few years ago Disqus was started, this spawned a little change in commenting. Disqus centralised all comments off the blog and allowed visitors to log in to comment using services such as facebook and twitter.

Today I painted the Twitter world red with a simple hack.

By Tweeting the following tweet, it is possible to inject CSS into Twitter, and make the whole screen go red.

http://twitter.com/#@"style="background-color:red;color:red;position:absolute;top:-999px;left:-999px;z-index:99;width:9999px;height:9999px"/


See the hack in action. http://twitter.com/timmillwood/status/25109323299

Thanks for the heads up on this from:
http://twitter.com/RainbowTwtr#@
http://twitter.com/chrisred
http://twitter.com/mb006

UPDATE:

Back in April I started work on a small site I called Drippic.

Yesterday Twitter announced their Anywhere API (http://dev.twitter.com/anywhere/begin). So I quickly added it to a custom module.

Here's how...

function module_name_init(){
drupal_set_html_head('');
$js = "twttr.anywhere(function(twitter) {";
$js .= "twitter.hovercards();";
$js .= "twitter.linkifyUsers();";
$js .= "});";
drupal_add_js($js, 'inline');
}


Last week I had the crazy idea that I could build my own version of Twitpic with Drupal. It turns out that I can.

In under 300 lines of code I wrote the Drippic module that allows posting of photos from Tweetie for iPhone.

Here’s what is does:-
Allow posting of photos (and a tweet) via a post request.
Photos saved as an ImageField and tweets saved as the title of a node.
Allow commenting on photos, posting the comment back to Twitter.
User generated, and verified with Twitter when posting a photo or comment.
Short URLs created using the Shorten module.

I was bored for a couple of hours this weekend and started to wonder if a microblogging site in Drupal.

There are now quite a few microblogging sites online such as Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and Plurk. I am a heavy user of Twitter as you can see from the right hand column of this site, but with all the network problems and downtime it is having can I make the follow up.

Can I do to Twitter what Facebook did to Myspace?

Today I have been playing with the Twitter API. If you see all the images in the block on the right, that is all my Twitter friends feed live via the API. If you can't see the images in the block on the right, it means either Twitter is down or I have made to many request this hour.