Dear TwiTalker Users：

This news is kinda sad: TwiTalker official bots will stop building.

I always believe that with the help of the technology, coding we can make life better and even change the way we communicate.I’ve been doing this work for years and TwiTalker is one of my favourite project.I’ve developed and launched TwiTalker, a twitter robot based on Google Talk last year, which provides a easy and simple way for Gtalk users to tweet.

There are some internet regulation in my country.I’m happy to found out TwiTalker became one of the applications breaking through the regulation barriers.I also doing lots of improvement jobs on that to make sure people pay more attention on the content of tweets themself.No sns model, no interface element, it’s just a tool for getting and sharing infomations.

Despite these wins, more and more official bots added and I have no time to maintain so many bots by myself.Besides, several projects still under developing in private.So I decide stop continue building more new official TwiTalker bots and focus on the improvement of the opensource version and the existing bots of twitalker.

Hope you guys understand. I am doing some awesome projects these months. I hope it will rock you up in the future

Best Regards

Kavin

去年的这个时候，TwiTalker开始正式上线，这个本意是开发来满足自己和部分朋友的小应用在一年来迅猛发展 (见去年文)。一周年了，TwiTalker进行了无数次修改和更新，重构了源程序，开源了代码，扩展了英文版本。用户从百到千增长，范围遍及世界各个地方。

所以，在这运行一周年的时间点上，我想说： Thanks for your support.

我一直坚信一点，科技必将改变人的生活习惯。编程之美对我来说不在于采用何种技术何种架构何种语言，而在于它在一行行代码的堆砌下，能将各种幻想变成现实，这也是我一直热爱编程的原因。

一周年了，我想说的有很多，但现在我正忙于准备毕业工作以及其他一些事宜，没有时间长篇抒发。但正如题目所写，TwiTalker的使命将是使更多人更方便的使用Twitter，同时在墙内外架起一座沟通的桥梁，让更多的人通过这座桥走出来看看外面的世界。

这是TwiTalker未来的开发方向，也是最终目标。为此，TwiTalker将一直保持更新和开源状态。

TwiTalker 是我九月初做的一个应用，提供推特Gtalk机器人服务，通过绑定添加TwiTalker 机器人可以在Gtalk上更新自己的推特和接收好友消息。代码花了两多周时间，9月19号开始公开测试，拖到现在才想到是时候总结下了，一方面是自己懒，一方面也是前段时间还一直在进行增加功能和后台优化。

和Della一样，这个应用也是基于Google App Engine。今年初开始就一直有传闻GAE将支持XMPP，自己盯着Google开放这个功能已经半年，终于在九月时候等到了。刚好饭否已经被那个啥了，转移到Twitter后发现它的官方Gtalk机器人已经失效多时，于是就想着要做这么一个应用，开始也只打算做着自己用的，后来觉得应该有人也需要这么个工具，于是干脆按多用户的结构去设计。

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