Anyway, the obvious application it to show your last tweets on your MediaWiki homepage. Right?
The source for this content looks like:
= Twitter =
{{#get_web_data:url=http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline/{{{Twitter|}}}.json?count=3|format=json|data=text=text,id_str=id_str}}
{| class="table" border=0
! {{#if:{{{Twitter|}}}|Three Latest Tweets}} {{#for_external_table:
{{!}}-
{{!}} {{{text}}} }}
|}
The {{{Twitter|}}} bit hooks in to the template field that created that People box on the right hand side of that page, which you can see in the above screenshot with my twitter account set.Of course, I have a hidden agenda here. The true reason is not twitter messages. It is being able to move data around. For example, wouldn't it be great to embed SPARQL results in wiki pages this way? Well, maybe there are better solutions, but the point is that this is technologically possible, and that we should think creatively in making mashups that help our scientific research.
