I now know why there are so many applications and toys written for Twitter. The Twitter folks have done a marvelous job of making it easy to write little toys for Twitter. Mine’s over at @piglatinbot.
I used a simple little Python library that’s both the thinnest possible skin over URLs and surprisingly functional and user-friendly.
If I feel inspired at some point over the week, I’ll add direct-message capabilities and sort out its little confusion about punctuation.