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I keep stumbling across innovative approaches to using Web APIs, for non-developers.
The other day I wrote about
quantifying your social media impact, using Google Docs and social media APIs, by
Tom Critchlow.
Tonight I came across a example of
archiving your daily tweets into a Google spreadsheet using the Twitter API.
Richard Orelup came up with this little hack in response to this tweet:
So in all of Twitter-dom, there is seriously no tool that archives a day's tweets in a sortable fashion?
Using the
importXML() function he pulls Twitter updates from the
Twitter API and stores in this
Google Spreadsheet.
The
spreadsheet template is pretty straightforward to use. Just make copy, and update the twitter user value.
Very cool
example of the power of APIs, and how important it is that we deliver simple, RESTful interfaces that developers and non-developers can use in every day business.