Twitter to Flash

Rather than be twiddling my thumbs waiting for the arduino to arrive in the post I've been researching other ways to get data from twitter. Twitter restricts requests to 150 per hour. This leaves you with one request per 24 seconds (3600/150). Obviously one note per second would sound rather dull. Therefore each update would have to play a series of notes, this changes the project slightly.

With regards to getting data from twitter, one way to do it would be Flash.

Luckily flash is very helpful in regards to this, or twitter is to be more exact. The

SWX Twitter API 

is explained in good detail, the site defines it thus: 'SWX stands for SWF Data Exchange Format. It’s a new, native, data format for Flash that uses simple SWF files to store and exchange data.' It also has a tutorial I am trying out currently.

That's all for now,

                             Tony