More Twitter hacks and BBC goodness
Tristan Ferne who leads the R&D team for Audio and Music interactive at BBC towers has just revealed this Twitter hack using Radio 1 feeds. You can sign up for track listings, SMS tag cloud data and other bits and bobs at twitter/bbcradio1
In related audio radio twitter news, word reaches us (via various places including Gordo on the mailing list ) of Steve Bowbricks new niche twittering experiment; Listen with BowbrickThis, as the name doesn't suggest, is devoted to exclusively mini reviews and links to Radio 4 programmes. Steve has been on his blog, a long time fan of R4 and implores us at the end of his post announcing this mini venture to
I'm kind of assuming that the go-ahead geeks at the Beeb will want to offer some kind of slightly more formal Beeb/Twitter mashup soon enough – like something, for instance, that will allow you to embed a short URL automatically or something that would work from a mobile (wouldn't it be entirely cool if you could receive a tweet referencing a Radio 4 show on your mobile and then click to listen to it?).
Well I don't know if we've got any go ahead geeks but this is a neat new way of using Twitter which I heartily recomend signing up for. Any others out there ? (now off to do posts about Tube Twitter and Speak Twitter in the ideas section Tom and Davy!)
(Jem Stone wrote this post).
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