I just published my first Yahoo! Pipe (oh big day, big day!) It adds a feature to the TwitAPI (and here, and here) that I've wanted for a while, which is the ability to get only those Twitter updates that have occurred since a certain time.

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Thom alerted me yesterday (thanks, man) that the getFriends() method in the TwitAPI stopped working.

Twitter apparently updated the structure of the friends links on their pages. I've now updated TwitAPI so that the getFriends() method works again.

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I was talking with Tom at BarCampLondon2 and he suggested that it would be useful to be able to get a list of direct messages for a given user. I was having issues with the Regex for doing this on the night (my older version of RegexBuddy -- best damn Regex tool in the universe -- and PHP weren't getting along) but I've since updated RegexBuddy to its latest version and added a new method call to TwitAPI called getDirectMessages.

It returns an array of objects (or an XML doc, depending on your method of access) with the following properties for each direct message: (more...)

I just presented at BarcampLondon2 on a little API extension I've been working on as a hobby for Twitter called TwitAPI. I found the official Twitter API slightly limiting when playing around with Friend or Follower. Specifically, there isn't a way to get a list of someone's friends without actually having their login information. And there's no support for adding, removing, following and leaving friends. Well, there wasn't, until TwitAPI :)

Basically, TwitAPI does the ugly work behind the scenes and gives you a simple API for accessing these features. Thanks to Amfphp, you get a Flash Remoting and JSON interface. And, for the getFriends call, I created an XML option as well.

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