The UnSub

Matching demand & supply is nothing new in the online world. Now it has taken shape in Twitterverse. I was thinking about it, could such match-making be effective in Twitter? Is there such a thing in Twitter?

Apparently the answer is yes: http://everythingtwitter.com/2009/03/04/twtmarket-buy-sell-trade-and-jobs-on-twitter/ and http://twtmarket.com/

The effectiveness is yet to be seen. I have some ideas of my own to get such a service more interesting.

Well as you might know that Twitter is gradually dropping SMS alerts from system to users due to high cost. GCal on the other hand still supports SMS reminders of your nearing events. I guess Google is quite rich and Twitter is not.

I have been using Google Calendar (or GCal) static recurring events to do *ahem* some polling. Recently I was fiddling with Twitter by coding a SMS update service http://twitter.sg. It got me to wonder if we can mash the two up.

Seems like a few people have beaten me to it. http://twittercal.com/ &
http://dotjay.co.uk/2008/feb/php-twitter-google-calendar-sms

As a person who is concerned with security, it bothers me since users would have to save not one but two sets of username:password into the system. This is a prevailing problem in the cyber world where users have “identities” crisis with growing adoption of online services. I digressed…

Maybe I am still rather new to Twitter. It all seems kinda convoluted to run so many lines of code just to get a text message to a person. You might as well pick up the phone and text directly. O well… I guess I will just do that for now.