Wiennat

The usage of birdnest increased dramastically since the beginning of June. Now we get more than 100,000 hits daily, mostly from China, and takes more than 10GB/month. So impressive this little service can be useful for many people over the world.

Anyway, I have to redeploy birdnest in wsgi mode to lighten the server load because the increasing of #birdnest usage. After some test drive, I migrate nest.onedd.net to wsgi over Phusion Passenger. Even though its wsgi support is just proof-on-concept, the performance is quite impressive. Kudos to Passenger team.

Thanks to @sugree, @iake, @tewson, @jittat and everyone for testing and give me bug report and other feedback. Feedback and suggestion are welcome at Project homepage.

Oh dear twitter, I have been a good boy for a day. I didn't neither insult Apple nor Steve Jobs on yesterday like somebody. I'm innocent.

I didn't try to be zealot either. I just proposed the possibility and gave Apple some feedback. I didn't commit any wrong act.

Unlock me please. :P

PS. I also used mbpidgin when I got blocked

We moved out and now we move in. Birdnest is now hosted by Google App Engine again.

Today announcement for #birdnest, 2 new features roll out, callback parameter support and stripping out the username at the front of tweet.

Callback parameter

Requested by @iake right after #barcampbangkok2.

When supply Twitter API with a parameter called "callback", Twitter sends back the JSON result enclosed in a function you specified with callback parameter. It's useful for creating javascript widget but #birdnest cannot handle these result and doesn't filter the unnecessary information out. The new #birdnest can recognize this callback function and can filter the unwanted data out.

Stripping out the username at the front of tweet

Request by @bact.

Why put @username in front of every reply tweets in reply timeline especially those who have a very long name. Let #birdnest strips it out for you. Don't worry #birdnest doesn't touch your name when it is on you friends timeline or public timeline.

JSON-Only Features

These feature are available only on JSON and I don't think there are many XML format user. If you are, please tell me. I'll try to make it for you. What? Can't wait? You can do it yourself and send the patch to the project homepage.

Wanna try?

Just point your Twitter gateway to http://nest2.onedd.net/. Notice the gateway name, it's nest2.onedd.net, not nest.onedd.net. Because I want these features to be tested by all of you first.

As always, all suggestions and bug reports are welcome at the project Google Code page.

Happy Tweeting