Last week, I didn’t have any personal project.

Last weekend, I made it one.

At first I named it jibjibd.

Now I call it birdnest. The project is currently hosted at Google App Engine and the project home page is here. This is my second time with App Engine. My first time was file hosting using BLOB feature of BigTable. Unfortunately, Google limit size of request and response both inbound and outbound to 1 MB.

In fact, I want to create birdnest since I played with twitter. At that time,I thought about some selected set of method and implement it as simple http protocol, 1 character for command and the rest is data, which really decrease number of byte that have to transfer. Without other user except than me, I couldn’t push myself to create it. Thanks to Sugree for being my very first birdnest user.

At the time of writing, there is only jibjib that supports birdnest officially. However, Kengggg is studying how to implement twitter client on iphone which utilize birdnest as its main API, ijib. Hence, he is another one who inspires me to do the project. Thank you Kengggg.

Lastly, thanks to Sugree again for refactoring and add most of filter to birdnest.

Happy tweeting.