I have been experimenting lately with the jabber side of twitter. It’s pretty powerful and allows you to do some cool things in real time. Unlike the HTTP protocol, xmpp (jabber) allows you to do things quicker and with less bandwidth. If you can read and XML file your pretty much golden because jabber pretty much just sends and receives xml.

With the Death of the DC Madam today I decided to test out some code that I have written. If you go to http://farrelley.com/dcmadam/ (currently only showing the last 20 tweets) you can track live twitters tweeting about the death and apparent suicide of the DC Madam. See what people are saying about her in real time and without that large media opinion. Twitter is a great tool for communication so why not use it for situations like this when they arise.

Feed back is welcome.  Please drop me a line in the comments or shoot me an email if you would like to know more of have some suggestions.

posted by farrelley at 3:01 pm & filed under PHP, Web Development & Programming |