DataTweet is a web service for publishing and viewing real-time data. Data tweets are merged into your timeline from Twitter. Example: The first and third entries above are ordinary twitter tweets, but the middle tweet arises from a data stream. You can specify which tweets you're interested in - for example, only earthquakes of magnitude 5 or greater within 200 miles of Los Angeles. You can also use DataTweet as a pure dataviewer. A variant timeline is provided containing only the tweets from data streams that you are following, and not ordinary Twitter tweets. Example: http://www.datatweet.net/tw/dt_user/data Here's the the list of filtered data streams from which the above timeline arises: http://www.datatweet.net/tw/dt_user/following Finally, you can access filtered data tweets from a particular stream at a direct URL such as DataTweet is new, so there are only a few data sources available so far. You can explore these few by clicking on "DataStreams" on the top bar. Please let us know about data sources on the web that you'd like to see pulled into DataTweet, or, better yet, publish your own data directly to DataTweet. For now, data tweets are visible only here at datatweet.net; other Twitter clients will be able to merge in datatweets too via our API. Publishing to DataTweet (for programmers) To publish your own data to DataTweet, you first define the type of tweets to be published - that is, what fields each tweet is expected to have - and then add a named stream referencing that type under your account. Then, you're ready to POST your tweets to http://api.datatweet.net/tw/<yourName>/Stream/<streamName>/insert() That's all there is to it. See the help page and the API docs for details. Signing into DataTweet via Twitter. You can access individual data sources with your own filters without signing into DataTweet, but to merge tweets from multiple sources and from your own Twitter timeline (or to publish to DataTweet), you'll need to authorize DataTweet to access your twitter account. WE SHARE NONE OF YOUR PRIVATE INFORMATION FROM TWITTER WITH ANYONE. In fact, we don't even store tweets from your timeline - we just pass them directly to you. If you want to post from DataTweet you'll need to authorize DataTweet for posting as well.
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