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I wrote the Tweet Server for an assignment in one of my programming courses at school. Read below for explanations on what the server does.

NON-TECHNICAL: The Tweet Server finds current trends from twitter, and returns relevant article descriptions from various online sources based on twitter’s trends.

TECHNICAL: The idea behind the server is to accept HTTP GET requests from clients over a port (I arbitrarily chose port 13500) in this form: “GET /tweetsearch HTTP/1.1″ (without the quotation marks). The server then queries twitter for the current top 10 trends and searches various RSS feeds for any key word matches. If any matches are found in the RSS feeds, the title and description of the matching article is extracted and returned to the client in XML format.

In the coming weeks I will upload the current form of the source code and a link to where the server can be queried.