The Future of GTweet

Thursday, April 23, 2009 http://atj.me/b/273

After a wonderful and relaxing trip to Greece, I returned to a flurry of e-mails warning me that GTweet is down.

Frustrating though it may be, I have the bittersweet problem of having grown too big for my hardware.

As this is currently a hobby project, I don't have the resources to beef up the GTweet infrastructure (read: I'm broke) so I'm thinking about porting the whole thing to Python and running it on the Google App Engine.

As ever the duties of my day job must come first, but I hope to get cracking on a somewhat more scalable version this weekend.

Thanks to everyone who sent in bug reports and other feedback - I find it immensely gratifying that so many people find GTweet useful.

On that note, I know times are tight all over, but if anyone who loves GTweet has a few extra bucks (or pounds, euros, yen or anything else), please consider the Donate button on my projects page. Thanks.

Now, off to learn Python...

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  1. Evan on April 24th, 2009 at 7:02 am

    I wonder if something similar to gtweet could be implements with a combination of FreeMyFeed and/or Yahoo Pipes?

  2. Adam on April 24th, 2009 at 9:54 am

    @Evan, FreeMyFeed is what I originally used to subscribe to my timeline feed in Google Reader, but I was unsatisfied with the presentation. No user avatar is displayed and the entire tweet is presented as a link to the individual tweet making clicking links in the body of the tweet frustrating. If this doesn't bother you, I can confirm that it works great!

  3. Kat on April 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm

    How goes it Adam? I wish I knew Python, I'd help you out...

  4. Evan on April 25th, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    @Adam, Yes, I'm using FreeMyFeed in the interim until gtweet is available again. :-)

    That is why I was thinking that perhaps the freely available Yahoo Pipes might be of use to do the reformatting that gtweet did.

  5. Adam on April 28th, 2009 at 10:19 am

    @Kat, Thanks for the support -enjoy the new version!

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