[Akiba] Got this link via WSN Blog, but wanted to show part of Adam Dunkel's mailing list post...looks like I'm gonna need to join the Sensor Tweet revolution soon...[/Akiba]

Hi all,

a while ago I started trying out Twitter, the microblogging service that
has received so much attention lately (http://twitter.com/adunk - yeah,
I know I am a few years late to the party... :)). I was quite skeptical
at first, particularly since the Twitter.com website wasn't that easy to
use. But after trying out better tools like TweetDeck and TwitterBar I
started to quite like it. It is a nice way to keep up with what is going
on around the world, and to share brief thoughts and links with others.

Looking around Twitter, I found a few projects where people were sending
Tweets from their flowers, hot tubs, and electrical meters: quite cool.
The problem with all these projects was, however, that they either
required cables (into every flower) or custom hardware or software to
communicate with the sensors and with the Twitter server (many were
ZigBee-based). I figured that with Contiki and our native TCP/IP
connectivity, we should be able to do more: directly post Tweets from
wireless sensors all around the world. Without intermediate software,
protocol converters, or custom gateways.

So I wrote a small Twitter client for Contiki: the Twitter API is based
on HTTP and easy enough to implement. With the Twitter client, Contiki
now can post messages directly to Twitter!

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