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...
Evan:
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?
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Adam Reply:
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!
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Evan Reply:
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.
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Kat:
April 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
How goes it Adam? I wish I knew Python, I'd help you out...
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Adam Reply:
April 28th, 2009 at 10:19 am
@Kat, Thanks for the support -enjoy the new version!
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