What happens when Twitter turn off the version 1 API?
Zeitgeist is a prototype to highlight the most shared BBC webpages on Twitter, a digest to link people to the hottest BBC pages. The project is part of a larger area of exploration to see how the BBC can use real-time trending data to enrich user experiences. One of our recent projects Music Trends shows how the artists played on BBC radio are trending on other music services, such as Last.fm and We are Hunted.
birdnest is a Twitter API proxy which filter out the unnecessary information off the Twitter response. This result better utilization of bandwidth for Twitter mobile client, primarily for jibjib.