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I'm using Twitter to keep a record of interesting URLs, along with a couple of hashtags and a brief description. I've been trying this with Delicious for the fi
by dhess 18y ago
I'm using Twitter to keep a record of interesting URLs, along with a couple of hashtags and a brief description. I've been trying this with Delicious for the first time, too, but so far I prefer Twitter, probably because more people use it, and it's easier for my friends to peruse.
It's just links, mostly to technical-, math- or education-related things. I try to keep the off-topic stuff to a minimum (I think there are maybe 4 or 5 tweets total out of a few hundred that don't follow the formula.)
http://twitter.com/dhess http://twitter.com/dhess
I do have a couple of concerns about using Twitter for this purpose:
* according to the Twitter API docs, they only keep 3200 tweets "online" at a time for any given account.
* the dependency on the TinyURL service.
* Twitter has historically spotty reliability.
So I'm working on an archiving solution, which I hope to make available soon. If you're the hacker type, it might appeal to you, too. I'll give a pointer to it on my Twitter feed when it's ready for testing.