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Any plans to support identi.ca in the Overheard tab?
The Overheard tab is great -- I didn't even know that it existed until I received an auto @reply that one of my tweets had resulted in a new topic. Are there any plans to integrate an identi.ca search for a company into the same stream?
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Inappropriate?There aren't any plans as of yet.
That said, we have every intention of extending Overheard to include many more sources of content, and as identi.ca grows, I'm sure it will be one of them.
We've got at least one additional Overheard source that we want to add before we consider any others: blogs. We're a small team and have to make sure our efforts generate a lot of value (for users, companies, and for us :)) and the ability to overhear blog posts would be much more valuable to everybody IMO.
Thanks so much for your feedback, and I'd love to hear why you think identi.ca would be more valuable than other services to include. We're always willing to switch our priorities if we've got the wrong idea about something.
-Scott
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Inappropriate?Scott, thanks for your reply. I'm seeing a rapid adoption of identi.ca amongst the tech community, who are probably also more likely to be Get Satisfaction users.
identi.ca now has a Twitter-compatible API, which made it possible for Twhirl to release identi.ca support so quickly. Also, search results in identi.ca all provide RSS feeds, which is another potential method of integration. Of course, I have no idea how you're actually integrating Twitter, I'm just thinking that integrating identi.ca could provide a significant reach into the leading-edge tech community for a relatively small effort. -
Inappropriate?I requested identi.ca support 19 days ago, and since tweetscan supports identi.ca I made a request for the ability to specify service the same day.
Sandy Kemsley: They're using the summize (now Twitter Search) API to filter RSS feeds for keywords. Twitter provides the data to Twitter Search (which is really a bad name, there's also a search on twitter but it's just for usernames and profiles), who then provides it to people through a nice API. Likewise, while identi.ca has an API for posting and getting posts from your friends, they don't have a search API. They do have a search RSS feed though: http://identi.ca/search/notice/rss?q=... so that's kinda neat. Don't know how well that's going to scale.
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