So Cote thinks that it’s time for organizations and companies to aggregate Twitter:
In theory, this whole pulse idea could be packaged up to be as easily deployable as ‘planet’ sites. Here, ‘pulse’ is the operational brand-name of aggregating Twitter accounts, where as ‘planet’ is the tried and true operation brand-name of aggregating blogs.
Last time I looked, There was an RSS feed for every person on Twitter, and the code for Planet is available (I’m pointing to Sam’s Venus version). About the only thing missing here is a nice web based UI that lets you put in people’s Twitter user names….
I just blogged about this, too — http://taint.org/2008/02/26/121227a.html
It’s a really neat idea.
Sounds good to me
For what it’s worth, I’m using Venus to run my own self-centered planet:
http://decafbad.com/accum/
Les,
Exactly
FWIW, I’ve made some patches to Venus to support Twitter aggregation, as seen at IrishPulse: Here they are.
Couldn’t you achieve a “poor man’s version” of this already by simply signing up with a dedicated “planet account” i.e. “planet-plone” and then follow all plone related tweets? the planet site would then simply be the twitter home page of that account.