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Roger ChenTwitter Data is a simple, open, semi-structured format for embedding machine-readable, yet human-friendly, data in Twitter messages. This data can then be transmitted, received, and interpreted in real time by powerful new kinds of applications built on the Twitter platform. Here is an example Twitter Data message:
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Vote
This widget shows total votes cast on Twitter for the Twitter Data proposal in real time. It is an example of using Twitter Data.
To vote, use the widget below to send a Twitter message with your vote embedded as Twitter Data. The widget will extract all votes from Twitter and show them in the graph.
Or you can do it manually by updating your Twitter status with a message that includes the subject #twitterdata and a $vote tuple with a value of a positive or negative number (i.e. +1 or -1). For example: I love the #twitterdata proposal! $vote +1
We created this widget with zembly.
Originally published May 12, 2009.
This is version 0.3, published May 19, 2009.
Introduction
In 140 chars: Twitter Data lets people embed bits of data in their tweets so that computers can read the data and do cool stuff #twitterdata
Twitter Data is a simple, open, semi-structured format for embedding machine-readable, yet human-friendly, data in Twitter messages. This data can then be transmitted, received, and interpreted in real time by powerful new kinds of applications built on the Twitter platform. Here is an example Twitter Data message:
I love the #twitterdata proposal! $vote +1
The part with the dollar sign, $vote +1, is a piece of data embedded using the Twitter Data format.
When an application knows how to read this data, it can then display it to users or send it to other applications to make Twitter an even more interesting and useful platform. You can see an example of this in the voting widget over there in the right-hand col -
Jack ParkTwitter Data is a simple, open, semi-structured data representation format for embedding machine-readable, yet human-friendly, data in Twitter messages. This data can then be transmitted, received, and interpreted in real time to enable powerful new kinds of applications to be built on the Twitter platform.
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