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Twitter exposes some of its functionality via an Application Programming Interface (API).  That means we can talk to the twitter at a system to system level rather then having a high maintenance human (me) in the loop.  After doing the contest 3 times, I think we can automate pretty much the whole thing and just leave it run.

Twitter provides a RESTful interface (check Wikipedia for more on what that means if you like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST).  While we could spend valuable time writing an interface to twitter in C#, but it seems someone has already done that for us (sweet) and we can build our application on their work.  I looked at 3 libraries and have decided to use the Yedda Twitter C# Library (http://devblog.yedda.com/index.php/twitter-c-library/)

So with that decision made, we can look at how we can build the application at a higher level.

I’m thinking a windows service can do all the day to day work, the twitivia.com website can be based on MVC (since I’m using that right now and it will be easier) and then we can add in some cool silverlight stuff to play with that.

How about, I get started then catch you up.