Posted by Merrin
Bibhas Acharya just solved a challenge that was posted by Anthony Townsend only a couple of days before to build a web application that filters Twitter down to just the URLs. The application – for which Bibhas was awarded $100 – is called Twit-URLs and can be found at http://768654.appspot.com. Bibhas not only gets $100 but getspublic credit for helping Anthony.
Anthony posted this challenge in the hope that someone would be able to help filter the “noise” on Twitter. He wanted a simple three-column display featuring the Twitter handle of the poster, the domain of the URL (linking to the full URL), and the title of the destination URL page.
The solution runs on the Google App Engine and makes use of various open source frameworks, including GAEUtilities and Python-Twitter. Anthony is so happy he’s using it as his homepage. Nice work guys!
Sep 22