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TwitterSALT is a web service that monitors your twitters and converts them to a SALT.
SALTs are simple images that can be embedded anywhere on the web.
Because every time somebody views a webpage, the SALT is loaded from it's original location, we have the opportunity to modify the salt anytime we want to. This gives the user the experience of having the site they are viewing updated with new data whenever they reload it, while giving you, the webpage author, the luxury of having part of your webpage update automatically, with no more work than embedding an image file into it.
We understand that much of the minutia that you twitter isn't really appropriate for your non-twitter audience. You can specify a trigger that you will begin the twitters that you want us to capture for you. Most people use a colon ':', since it's quick to type, but you can specify anything you want as your trigger.
If you specify this option, we will ignore any twitter that doesn't start with your trigger, and for those that do, we will strip out the trigger text when we build your SALT.
We poll twitter.com for new messages from you, every 25 seconds. When we see your new message, we process it as fast as our system can get to it.
TwitterSALT runs on multiple web servers, to handle the processing of user posts, so we get to it very quickly. We also add new servers as our number of users grow. Your web document should reflect your new twitters within one minute of you posting.
TwitterSALT is not merely a twitter display. It allows you to communicate with non-twitter users, all over the web, using the convenience of twitter. These are different goals.
A twitterSALT user generally wants to only post some of her twitters for 'public consumption'. Her plans to meet her friend for lunch is probably of no interest to her clients and may not belong on her web page.
She may not choose to inform her web audience that twitter was the tool she used to communicate with them. Why would they be impressed by her use of twitter? In fact, it might confuse them.
She wants a particular look to her communications, not just what some widget designer dreamed up and everybody else has.
She wants to send an email and be able to update part of the message in that email, even after she sends it.
She wants her users that don't use javascript, or flash, or the latest browsers, to still be able to see her communications.
Yes they are missing. TwitterSALT's mission is to allow you to use twitter to communicate with non-twitter users. Non-twitter users don't know what @ means, they certainly don't know who "@fuzzybunny" is, and probably aren't interested that @fuzzybunny should bring pizza after the ball game.
Replies to a specific person are not 'updates', they are 'replies'. TwitterSALT users are more deliberate in what they choose to communicate to their non-twitter audience. If you want all of your random replies to be echoed to your site, there are many fine, and free, flash and javascript based widgets available.
Please note though, that you can begin your updates with an @ symbol and have them appear on your twitterSALT, but you must put a non-alphanumeric character after the @ symbol so that twitter does not characterize it as a reply. Also, don't forget that, aside from this automatic "reply filter" that we do, you also have the ability to add triggers to the beginning of your twitters to further filter what appears in your twitterSALT.