Thanks to TIBCO’s Patrick Sapinski for some news on a CEP-driven Twitter application (albeit not public yet) that used location awareness principles to “tweet” people depending on where they were (e.g. passing a certain location). The Twitter side of the story was apparently the easy part. Patrick writes:
“We did not do any Java coding to accomplish this. We just used the TIBCO BusinessWorks HTTP activity to send tweets to Twitter. It was pretty easy once I configured the messages, URL, etc.”
Of course, for corporate applications / private tweets there are also services like Tibbr, which I signed up for this week… meanwhile I’m happy sticking with iGoogle to monitor “the real thing” via RSS feeds!
Hi Paul. Twitter is indeed becoming one of the most common channels for event producers. I have described a cool application based on Twitter developed in the IBM Hursley Lab that traces the location of the Hursley bus. See: http://epthinking.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-epia-chapter-about-event-consumers.html
Hi Opher – I’d forgotten you’d mentioned that, thanks. Looks like Hursley is using Twitter as an event bus for useful info not just gossip! Presumably the next thing is time-bounded (or conditional) subscriptions to do at-source (ie Twitter server) filtering – eg I’m only interested in the bus location on the run up to my travel times…
Cheers