This is cute. Twiddict is an application launching today with impeccable timing. Assuming Twitter goes down today during Apple WWDC events (an iPhone 3G launch), you can use Twiddict to keep sending your Twitters messages. Twiddict continuously pings the Twitter API to see if it’s up again, and routes the stored messages back as soon as it’s stable. The site was built by Robin Wauters (@robinwauters), Tom Klaasen (@tomklaasen), Tijs Vrolix (@tijs) and Koen Van der Auwera (@atog), all in Belgium.
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June 9, 2008
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Just what an ailing, overloaded API needs – an app which ‘continuously pings’ it to see if it’s working yet. Sigh.
Peter Bowyer – Hah! Goog point!
Perhaps Twiddict will now help take down Twitter itself!
TwitterMail.com offers the same functionality as an extra feature….
And to address Peter Bowyer concerns: TwitterMail and Twiddict both check Twitter once a minute to see if it is up again. That is very different from an army of ‘twiddicts’ frantically reloading Twitter.com.
I wouldn’t worry about it…
Expect a C&D from twitter regarding the domain