Using Twitter as a mechanism to remote control applications?
api, debugging, remote-desktop, social-networking, twitter
Solution
I fail to see the advantage of using a proprietary, third-party chat site in place of an appropriate networking protocol.
Problem
I was brainstorming interesting usages of Twitter and came up with the following: - An application can use it as a call home mechanism - An application that has an invalid license could broadcast its location - A software company could use it as a remote shell like interface and issue commands to shutdown, restart and to publish patches - An application can use it for heartbeat purposes Has anyone else came up with other non-standard usages of Twitter?