ListLeagues: Turn Twitter lists into leagues
October 23rd, 2009. Published under General. No Comments.
Did you know that Twitter attempted to secretly release a new feature to a small percentage of users (less than 5%)? The chances are that you did, but if you didn’t check out this Mashable article about Twitter Lists. They will be releasing the lists feature to 5% of people over the next few weeks.
When Twitter release new features, or are planning a new feature, they give developers new API methods to test out. This was the case for Lists. Developers have been given access to a draft API documentation.
So with a combination of being one of the small fraction of users given access to Lists I also saw the draft Lists API, I thought I could make an app as proof of concept of what can be done. The result was ListLeages.
One of my old Twitter apps TwitterLeague (which I no longer own or operate) was built before Lists was even an idea and so if you wanted to create a league of Twitter users you had to login to Twitterleague and add users individually. But now with ListLeagues you can create your lists on Twitter and turn them into leagues by matching the uri (the bit after http://twitter.com)
So for instance I have a league at http://twitter.com/ollieparsley/hootware. If I wanted to create a league from this list all I do is substitute twitter.com for listleagues.com. So the URL would become http://listleagues.com/ollieparsley/hootware
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