Twitter Made Useful : Connecting Twitter To Real Things

By Cyrus Farivar , published on May 18, 2009 at 7:01 PM
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For the last hack, we just wanted to send you off with a few of our favorite examples of integrating Twitter into the real world. We've seen some really fascinating uses of Twitter, including a cat door that takes pics of a couple's RFID-enabled cats (seriously). There's also Twittering washing machine that will tell you when its done washing. Plus, a little plant kit with an electronic moisture sensor that will tell you when to give it water -- via Twitter of course. Finally, the best example is in a London bakery that has a device called BakerTweet, which lets the bakery tell its customers when its freshest products are ready. If you manage to build anything like this, be sure to tell us about it on Twitter.
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Anonymous 05/19/2009 5:53 PM
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What's Twitter? :3

Curnel_D 05/20/2009 1:25 AM
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This artcle would be awesome if I used twitter. Unfortunately, none of this stuff makes me want to start.

outacontrolpimp 05/20/2009 3:11 AM
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still stupid

Powersworder 05/20/2009 10:14 AM
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Still doesnt interest me in the slightest.

Curnel_D 05/20/2009 10:42 AM
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Lol, I feel like TG and Jane have all been hired to convince us that twitter is awesome and we should use it.
But it's like playing apple commercials at a Microsoft Developers Network convention.

norbs 05/20/2009 7:14 PM
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curnel_D :
Lol, I feel like TG and Jane have all been hired to convince us that twitter is awesome and we should use it. But it's like playing apple commercials at a Microsoft Developers Network convention.


Yeah exactly... and maybe move out of grandma's basement.

Curnel_D 05/21/2009 1:20 AM
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norbs :
Yeah exactly... and maybe move out of grandma's basement.


Lol, exactly. Because moving out of grandma's basement is only likely to happen if you join twitter. "Failure to join twitter and other meaningless social networking sites can lead to social unawareness, frequent lapses in social judgment, and failure to successfully launch your own life outside of your childhood shelters."
Uhuh. :P

asus3008 05/22/2009 2:20 PM
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"Information Sharing and Disclosure" - From Twitter
" Service Providers We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us, including, without limitation, hosting and maintenance, customer relationship, database storage and management, and direct marketing campaigns. We will share your personally identifiable information with these third parties"

Twitter ah.. No tnx... i`m surprised that u have an such article in hire. READ the Twitter Privacy Policy it well explain every think .. way sod stay out of this kind of social networks....

--- What the bleep you know about privacy any way to recommend such thinks ??? ---

asus3008 05/22/2009 2:21 PM
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We will share your personally identifiable information

Curnel_D 05/22/2009 10:43 PM
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asus3008 :
"Information Sharing and Disclosure" - From Twitter" Service Providers We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us, including, without limitation, hosting and maintenance, customer relationship, database storage and management, and direct marketing campaigns. We will share your personally identifiable information with these third parties"Twitter ah.. No tnx... i`m surprised that u have an such article in hire. READ the Twitter Privacy Policy it well explain every think .. way sod stay out of this kind of social networks.... --- What the bleep you know about privacy any way to recommend such thinks ??? ---


Wow, thanks for the info.

p05esto 05/26/2009 4:52 PM
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Twitter is stupid, stupid, stupid. TOMS has stooped to the fad of the day????? Maybe instead they should be educating people on how completely pointless this service is and how we should focus on more useful technologies instead. Yea, like I want to follow TOM's on twitter to get some pointless text messages - OK.

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