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Today, the ‘Internet glue’ service IFTTT gets a fresh set of Twitter triggers that allow users to build recipes that react to tweets, favorites, retweets and more. This allows users to return to archiving tweets to Dropbox, saving links and images, building lists off of favs and much more. IFTTT (If THIS then THAT) is a service that allows users to define a trigger (a new RSS feed item, a new tweet) and an action (tweet it for me, put it in my dropbox) to form a recipe that can be used and shared. It connects dozens of different internet services together to make it easy to use the internet the way that you want to. Just over a year ago, Twitter announced changes to its API for developers that effectively capped third-party clients, hardened the rules for displaying tweets and much more. As a result of those rules, IFTTT chose to voluntarily shutter its Twitter triggers until it could build ones that complied with the new rules. It took a while, says Leor Stern, IFTTT’s Head of Business Development, for the company to get the bandwidth to revisit the triggers. Stern, who joined IFTTT earlier this year, says that they’ve been busy building out the platform and soliciting companies for newer, more robust triggers. It’s worth noting that the original triggers were removed voluntarily by IFTTT, after the rule changes were announced by Twitter. Not that it would have had much choice in the end, as they didn’t jive with the new tweet display rules, among others. In order to get the triggers back, IFTTT went to Twitter and talked them through the service, what it did and what it could offer both Twitter users and the service. IFTTT, says Stern, has a vision of ‘scripting the ultimate way for people to personalize the way that they engage with the web’. The pitch resonated with the people at Twitter and they began working with IFTTT to get the new triggers built to comply with the new API and Twitter’s current vision for its own service. It probably didn’t hurt, either, that it’s been a while since the changes went through, and things have calmed down a tad. After the changes were announced, there was significant backlash in the developer community and a general feeling of unease about how some apps would survive. There was also a period of flux
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Nearly A Year Later, Twitter Triggers Return to IFTTT With Official Support
Today, the ‘Internet glue’ service IFTTT gets a fresh set of Twitter triggers that allow users to build recipes that react to tweets, favorites, retweets and more. This allows users to return to archiving tweets to Dropbox, saving links and images, building lists off of favs and much more. IFTTT (If THIS then THAT) is a service that allows users to define a trigger (a new RSS feed item, a new tweet) and an action (tweet it for me, put it in my dropbox) to form a recipe that can be used and shared. It connects dozens of different internet services together to make it easy to use the internet the way that you want to. Just over a year ago, Twitter announced changes to its API for developers that effectively capped third-party clients, hardened the rules for displaying tweets and much more. As a result of those rules, IFTTT chose to voluntarily shutter its Twitter triggers until it could build ones that complied with the new rules. It took a while, says Leor Stern, IFTTT’s Head of Business Development, for the company to get the bandwidth to revisit the triggers. Stern, who joined IFTTT earlier this year, says that they’ve been busy building out the platform and soliciting companies for newer, more robust triggers. It’s worth noting that the original triggers were removed voluntarily by IFTTT, after the rule changes were announced by Twitter. Not that it would have had much choice in the end, as they didn’t jive with the new tweet display rules, among others. In order to get the triggers back, IFTTT went to Twitter and talked them through the service, what it did and what it could offer both Twitter users and the service. IFTTT, says Stern, has a vision of ‘scripting the ultimate way for people to personalize the way that they engage with the web’. The pitch resonated with the people at Twitter and they began working with IFTTT to get the new triggers built to comply with the new API and Twitter’s current vision for its own service. It probably didn’t hurt, either, that it’s been a while since the changes went through, and things have calmed down a tad. After the changes were announced, there was significant backlash in the developer community and a general feeling of unease about how some apps would survive. There was also a period of fluxOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/typMI_2c-Gs/
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