Store Binary Data in Twitter With Tootfiles
Sometimes a man’s worst ideas lead to his finest moments: Ben Franklin decides to fly a kite in a storm and we get electricity (I’m paraphrasing that story), Alexander Graham Bell shacks up with his 15-year-old apprentice (who was deaf) and we get the telephone (paraphrasing again).
Now, I don’t fly kites and my wife is neither 15 years old nor deaf, but I feel you and I might be on the cusp of solving the world’s data storage needs as I, too, have a terrible idea: let’s put everything in Twitter. Everything. Music, photos, tax forms—you name it, we should be able to store the data in a Twitter stream.
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