TwitParty is the realization of an idea I had this weekend to marry the fun of Translation Party and Twitter. For a long time I had been wanting to build something for Google AppEngine. So, to take a break from writing a journal article and my syllabus, Tuesday night I began writing TwitParty. Then, 23 hours later (yes, I slept) it was live! If nothing else, I think this might be the prettiest website I've ever developed.

About

• Hosted on Google AppEngine


• Authenticates to Twitter via OAuth. From the site: "An open protocol to allow secure API authorization in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications."


• 'Garbles' messages by taking your text in some input language (default English) and translating it to and from the garbling language (default Japanese) until the text stops changing. Sometimes this can go on for a surprisingly long time, so I've set the maximum number of attempts at 20.


• Displays the live #twitparty feed. This was originally done with an AJAX script that took the JSON output from a Twitter search and displayed it. That is until a friend pointed out that Twitter has a blessed widget that fit the bill perfectly and already looked nice.

Please leave any questions or comments about TwitParty below.