This week was busy. What started as a simple question, “Can we use the Twitter API to create useful twitter events?” turned into a week of marathon coding to see an idea come to fruition. Enter hashtagscoialmedia.com (#socialmedia). #Socialmedia is a site that offers a window in to the hashtag social media. It creates an organized, automatically updating experience  to follow the social media discussion on Twitter. #SocialMedia will also host weekly events for all to participate. We will record those events for reference and encourage feedback for future events. Head over to hashtagsocialmedia.com next Tuesday at noon to join the social media discussion.

There are still a few bugs to work out and features to add, but why hold back a good idea.

I have spent the last week working with the twitter search API. I have to say that I think it is a very accessible API. I was able to pick it up and start developing within the hour.  In fact I will be announcing a new twitter app/site  in partnership with @marc_meyer and @jasonbreed. So look for that announcement later today.

All in all I have to say I am amazed by how much demand twitter supports. The API allows us to query twitter aggressively.  Many people complain when twitter goes down but considering how much they are delivery through their site and API I am surprised it does not go down more often.