Mashup brings CNN news alerts to Twitter
Rumors had it that CNN was experimenting with sending news alerts through Twitter. I thought that pretty cool, but of course it wasn’t the newschannel themselves, but rather an individual not associated with CNN at all. James Cox has created a mashup using CNN’s news emails and Twitter’s API. He posted this twitter:
everyone - added CNN Breaking News to twitter. ev - great API! — just do *add cnnbrk *and you’ll get the alerts as they are sent out 02:39 AM January 02, 2007 from im
In a comment at TinyScreenfuls.com, James Cox explains:
It was a mashup - been wanting breaking news on my phone for a while. CNN Breaking News comes as email, so I simply setup an email-to-twitter gateway using their really nice API.
All I have to do now is wait for the C&D from CNN :D
(via Martin Stabe)
