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Twitter on Scala Interview

There is a nice interview with the Twitter development team on Artima about using Scala in production on Twitter code. The team talks about some issues and facilities regarding the chose of Scala to develop Twitter’s queueing system and how Scala affected the team’s programming style.
My personal highlights:
And Ruby, like many scripting languages, has trouble [...]

Twitter Ecosystem Tools

I’m very impressed of how many applications are being built on top of Twitter. This simple communication tool bas became so popular that people use it to expand their business relationships, promote themselves, discover new friends, talk about stuff they like, et cetera..
Here are some tools (maybe mashups?) which use Twitter:

Retweetist
TwitterFall
140IT
Twazzup
WeFollow
Qwitter
TwitterHolic</a
TwitterMosaic
FlashTweet
Retwigger

Here you can find other [...]