From the beginning of Twitter, I've seen a huge ammount of its power locked up in being more of a platform than a messaging service.
I built mytwitternotebook.com (and a couple other of my own utilities) on that idea; that twitter was something that you could get at from your desk and your phone, and that in itself lends an opportunity to interact in interesting ways.
The command line aspects of it are both awesome and frustrating. You are unambiguous about what you want, and what you're getting back (a programmer's dream); but even for return data, you're limited to 140 characters, in that respect, it's nothing like a quality command line. You also can't do any kind of mashups with commands (In unix they called them pipes...mashups aren't a new idea at all) but you can't get what you want if you go like this
d stock AAPL | d tweetnote #stock
That would just confuse @stock, not send the stock to your personal notebook;
Twitter is at best a decent starting point for a mobile, shared command line.
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I built mytwitternotebook.com (and a couple other of my own utilities) on that idea; that twitter was something that you could get at from your desk and your phone, and that in itself lends an opportunity to interact in interesting ways.
The command line aspects of it are both awesome and frustrating. You are unambiguous about what you want, and what you're getting back (a programmer's dream); but even for return data, you're limited to 140 characters, in that respect, it's nothing like a quality command line. You also can't do any kind of mashups with commands (In unix they called them pipes...mashups aren't a new idea at all) but you can't get what you want if you go like this
d stock AAPL | d tweetnote #stock
That would just confuse @stock, not send the stock to your personal notebook;
Twitter is at best a decent starting point for a mobile, shared command line.