@twitter annotations : What I learnt at the hackfest….
A few of us joined in at the new Twitter office in downtown SF (right next to Moscone Center) and were for the first time shown what Twitter is doing about “ Twitter Annotations â€. We probably created the first set of 3rd party applications around this new API. During the Hackathon I spent some time to wear my “Scalable web architecture†hat to think what I could learn from this experience which I’ve summarized below. Twitter annotations from a developer’s view point is just an extension to existing APIs which now allows posting of additional structured content along with “tweetâ€. The content stays within the context of the tweet and will be retweeted/shared automatically with the main tweet. Twitter has some recommendations on how the annotations should be structured, for example they were talking about “type†which sounded very much like Open Graph’s “type/category†concept , with the difference that Twitter has left the field open for any kind of “ty