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@mario, Wed 26th August 2009
the history
BBC Backstage
@bbcbreaking, @bbcnews, @bbctech etc.
twitter API + BBC news RSS feeds = 
early 2007....
should I turn this into a service?
let's see how easy rails really is!
quite easy...
May 2007:
http://twitterfeed.com is born
... 18 months pass ...
Xmas 2008:
100,000 active feeds
"Can I have @bbcarsenal?"
"What about @bbcspurs?"
"Surely you could 
set up @bbcqpr?"
twitter goes "mainstream"
By Feb 2009:
no. of feeds doubled to 200K
which is nice, but...
hosting costs start to add up
time spent supporting users grows
ever longer
discussions with TAG and betaworks
funding agreed in spring 2009
site re-design in June
what next?
more analytics/
 campaign tools
platforms other
than twitter
(e.g. facebook)
scaling!


more efficient feed parsing 
distributed, AMQP based feed processing and posting
superfeedr?
pubsubhubbub?
RabbitMQ
thanks!
@mario
@twfeed
support for identi.ca, Ping.fm, HelloTxt
twitter OAuth support