13 9 / 2010
Streamie.org - A Hackable, Realtime Twitter Client In The Browser
Malte Ubl has announced Streamie.org, a realtime web based twitter client in the browser. It is moving fast, with new features appearing almost daily. Here are some of the features already in place:
- Truly realtime. When someone posts a new tweet, it will show up in your timeline in a matter of seconds - no refresh necessary!
- When you scroll down, streamie maintains your scroll state as new tweets appear. I can’t use a Twitter client without this feature
- Image uploading
- Geolocation
- Chrome notifications
- Image previews without leaving the page
- View all tweets in a conversation
- Autocomplete of twitter names with creating a tweet
- Direct messages and at-replies from people you don’t follow are interwoven with the main timeline
- Hackable++
One of the most interesting aspects of Streamie is its hackability. The entire project is opensource, including the node.js backend as well as the HTML5/CSS3/JS frontend.
Now if you want to build your own version of streamie, there are eight easy steps:
- Fork Streamie on Github
- git branch gh-pages
- git checkout gh-pages
- git pull origin gh-pages
- edit something in ./public
- git commit
- git push origin gh-pages
- Wait a little on the first time
Now go to YourGithubUserName.streamie.org and visit your new Twitter client.
Very neat! You can check out Streamie at streamie.org, read a few blog posts by Malte about it, and check out the source code on Github!
