One of the biggest factors of Twitter’s success and popularity is the wealth of third party tools and solutions built around it and using its API.
Just recently, I came across an interesting little project built around Twitter that aims to open a window on tweets coming out of Kuwait, and about Kuwait, by the name of KuWeet.
The way it was built is really simple: an account @kuweet was created for twitter users in Kuwait to follow, and then what happens is that all followers of this account are collected and placed in a list. All tweets originating from people on this list are then aggregated into a a public timeline of Twitter users from and about Kuwait.
According to its developer, it’s based on an integration of Twitter2html into WordPress, with a theme that is pretty much identical to the Twitter interface.
New tweets are fetched every 10 minutes through a planned cron process.
KuWeet is a project by well-known Kuwaiti blogger and tweeter @nibaq.