First we pull as much of your Twitter timeline as we can, and find the ones that have links in them. We used an open source project called Goose to grab the art

First we pull as much of your Twitter timeline as we can, and find the ones that have links in them. We used an open source project called Goose to grab the article text from those links and store it in our database and then push it to the user. It's all PHP/MySQL/Javascript/Java running on a VPS. It took us about 3 days of work to go from idea to completion (in between class as we're college students.) Feel free to email us or comment if you have any more questions :)