{"id":253,"date":"2007-11-11T23:34:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T04:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/archives\/185"},"modified":"2007-11-11T23:34:26","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T04:34:26","slug":"twitter-as-a-transport-layer-of-intentions-ideas-intutions-infatuations-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/twitter-as-a-transport-layer-of-intentions-ideas-intutions-infatuations-etc\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter as a Transport Layer of Intentions, Ideas, Intutions, Infatuations, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"

During the times when I was getting bored, I started playing around with twitter<\/a>. The idea is simple — communicate with the world in 140 characters or less, either through SMS, IM or plain web. These short messages get broadcasted to people who are either “following” a person or “tracking” words. The notifications can be displayed through the same mechanism viz. SMS, IM, web. These 140 character messages are nothing but 4 broad categories of (a) what people like (b) what they want\/intend (c) what they are thinking (d) ideas about stuff.<\/p>\n

The most interesting aspect of twitter is it’s public timeline<\/a>, where it shows real-time messages from people across the globe. This is where it gets interesting. You can track for example “wild fire” or “california” or a particular movie. Like blogs, there is immense amount of publicly available information which can be chopped for further use. <\/p>\n

I also see several other future possibilities of applications on top of twitter for creating communities, commerce, and interactions. This may turn twitter into a platform rather than an application in itself. I like to call it TLI (Transport Layer for Ideas (or intutions, intentions or infatuations). <\/p>\n

Out of the boredom and coding in between boring Hindi movies, I created twitterarc<\/a> — a simple application which wraps Ajax on top of the twitter public timeline. There are a lot of cool things which are possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the times when I was getting bored, I started playing around with twitter. The idea is simple — communicate with the world in 140 characters or less, either through SMS, IM or plain web. These short messages get broadcasted to people who are either “following” a person or “tracking” words. The notifications can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}