I think I may have found it! A use for twitter the small business owner can use and a developer can push.

I recently had a task of making a small news section where the user can easily ad a small blurb about their business. The other requirement was for it to be simple to update as the user had no knowledge of HTML and was not very tech savvy. This is where twitter came in. They did not need long updates or uploads of images. And I didn’t want to create a table in a database, as frankly, the site was small and didn’t even have a database.

After creating a small tool awhile back to update my facebook status, and create a tweet at once, I was somewhat familiar with the twitter web service. So I created about 4 lines of PHP that contained the username and password of the twitter user to publish from, then retrieved a certain number of tweets. It then simply formatted it between divs to look like the rest of the page. Simple and easy!

This is a simple too I will most likely suggest to future clients. I will also look for ways to extend it.