Ok, Fine, I'm Twittering, Jeeze

No secret that when it comes to digital history I like to keep mine on my own databases.

I dig the whole microblogging/short status update thing. I did it here on joereger.com, powered by reger.com... basically short blog posts aggregated into a single timestamped entry. And that worked for a while but the short updates got messy inside of a traditional blog. I built MyThredz as a microblogging service to fit me better than Twitter. And that worked for a while because I didn't know many people on Twitter. But now @yellowjeepgirl, @riverace, @metamarshall and others are actually Twittering their proverbial arses off.

For a while now I've wanted in on their convos. But I couldn't fathom updating joereger.com, mythredz.com and then twitter.com. I had planned on getting MyThredz to use the Twitter API so that when I update it'll automatically update Twitter. I used the Twitter API when I built dNeero to send new conversation updates out so I knew it was easy to use.

So today I spent the 30 minutes to code it all up. And the 30 minutes to test and deploy it. The core API calls took 5 minutes. The javascript user interface options allowing me to see how many characters I've typed and to override Twitter updates took a few minutes longer. I also updated the mobile phone interface so that I can control Twitterage.

Alas, I am finally Twittering. Follow me here. Expect nothing useful.