SXSW-Free Twitter with Pipes. But what we need is middleware..

Right, that’s it. I’ve had enough of not being at SXSW and getting assailed with people going to cool lectures, eating Tex-Mex and drinking cocktails. I’ve decided to create myself a SXSW-free Twitter.

Unfortunately I only have a half-way-house solution feeding the Twitter stream through Yahoo Pipes and hacking out all SXSW mentions.

For those that don’t know Yahoo Pipes it is a way of producing mashups and filters using a graphical interface for connect up “pipes of data” and little processing units. What i’ve done is taken some inputs for your username and password, built up a URL string for your Twitter RSS and passed it through a filter to strip out those annoying SXSWer mentions…. The end result.. a clean RSS feed. (props to www.techlifeweb.com who did the original Twitter pipes setup)

Unfortunately it’s only a halfway house as I can’t hook TweetDeck up to it. What is why we need Twitter-MiddleWare to allow applications to be invented to clean, filter and process your stream but can seamlessly hook together with the same API to allow any end-client to connect. It would require some authentication standards and a way to scale but hey, not too difficult right.

You can use the SXSW-Free Twitter Yahoo Pipe at http://pipes.yahoo.com/stueccles/sxswfreetwitter

Anyway for totally SXSW free twitter experience follow me @stueccles