Hey VC, Using Twitter for the purpose you describe seems similar to accounts which provide a notification about a new blog post or a news article. In those cases some context is provided about the link in the Tweet so that the timeline is meaningful to somebody who stumbles across it. You don't have to do that of course, but consider how an account which publishes just URLs and tags would appear to others on twitter.com
In terms of the message, if you can fit it into 140 characters and not post duplications you can post to Twitter. Remember though, the Twitter API has rate limits, the main one for you being that only 1000 Tweets can be posted per day. There are additional limits which you can read about on our developer resources website: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/rate-limiting The model of having users subscribe to messages through your application without having Twitter accounts is your call. As long as you stay within our Terms of Service there is no problem. The "Rules of the Road" are available on our developer website: http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms Hope that helps explain a little about the Twitter API in relation to your idea, Matt On Aug 19, 11:44 pm, VirtualCoder <email.workbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I am building an Adobe AiR application in which a community of users > will be tagging various URL pages. Whenever someone tags a new URL, I > need to "broadcast" that new URL to all of the users who have > installed my AiR application. > > Can Twitter API help me with this? > > There are a couple of issues to keep in mind. > > (1) Only URL's need to be broadcast with a couple of criptic tag-id's > - so none of this would resemble a typical Twitter message that is > made up of words and sentences. > > (2) The same application would need to "subscribe" to messages from a > single Twitter user, without forcing application users to create their > own individual accounts. > > If not twitter, is there some other service that provides free and > reliable messaging services, as described above. > > Thanks again, > VC -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
