Why Twitter clients don’t matter

Since creating TweetSharp, I’ve had the opportunity to speak with a lot of folks who are using it to build their Twitter projects, which is great to hear. Most developers feel that a) the current state of the union for Twitter clients like Seesmic Desktop and Twhirl, TweetDeck and hootsuite, blu and Witty, just doesn’t do “all of the things I’d want a Twitter client to do”. And this is fair criticism, since client developers can’t possibly anticipate every use for Twitter, and new uses are emerging all the time.

The most common use for TweetSharp has been to accelerate the development…

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Introducing tweet#, the complete fluent C# library for Twitter

tweet# is a complete C# library for Twitter that allows you to write short and sweet expressions that are automatically converted to Twitter queries and sent on your behalf. In addition to covering 100% of Twitter’s REST and Search APIs, tweet# also provides the following configurable features:

• Discoverable method chains that only expose what you can actually call
• Hooks for easy asynchronous operation
• Status update truncation by word, and automated URL shortening
• Server-side caching of queries (ASP.NET, memcached, or use your own)
• Quick and painless conversion from JSON query results to C# data classes

Here are just a few examples to show you what’s possible…

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