[TriEmbed] Twitter Questions

[Charles McClelland]

To all,

I have been building an apartment monitor that can collect information around my apartment (temp, light, occupancy, and “knocks” via XBee from my wireless knock sensor).  At first I used an internet of things service - Xively  - to make the results available to my phone while traveling.  However, after reading the excellent book "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal” , I thought - why not Tweet the information.  

I have this working now with my Arduino having its own Twitter tag - @chipduino.  But I have run into the limitations of the Arduino platform as the new Twitter 1.1 APIs, SSL connection, and OAuth authentication mean that the Arduino cannot Tweet on its own.   In addition, the approach I have working today is only one directional allowing me to post Tweets but not read and act upon them.   That leaves me three options: 
1) Be content with simply being able to post Tweets using an intermediary service to manage the OAuth identification as I am today with - http://arduino-tweet.appspot.com
2) Build my own service in the cloud (perhaps using JazzHub and a PHP script that is already available) so I can do more than just Tweet.  I would like to tell my Arduino to do something via Twitter like turn on the heat when I am coming home (security?)
3) Move to a more capable embedded system like the Beagle Board, Raspberry PI or even the new combo boards like Galileo or Yun where I could run the Twitter stuff locally.

I am sure someone has dove into the Social Media pool, what is your advice on the best path forward?

Thanks,

Chip

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