Twitter Markup Language is a markup language

Markup language

A markup language is a modern system for annotating a text in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from that text. The idea and terminology evolved from the "marking up" of manuscripts, i.e. the revision instructions by editors, traditionally written with a blue pencil on authors' manuscripts...

 for use in twitter

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 streams (tweets). It is part of a family of markup languages known as 'Realtime Markup Languages (RTML). RTML also includes Short Message Markup Language (SMML).

TML gives structure to Twitter streams. With TML, users can tag part of the stream which are then parsed by a Twitter reader or human. TML enables new forms of human-human, human-machine and machine-machine communication using Twitter.

TML can be used for many applications and verticals.

Examples

For road traffic and transportation: Instead of just tweeting about an accident, add tags to indicate time and place of accident. City officials and highway police can also use TML to tag road closures or other problems. GPS nav units and Android and Apple apps can then pick up these streams and parse them.

TML for Transportation

Use this syntax for a wide range of transportation status alerts. Bridges, roads, traffic, roadworks, etc. These streams can then be read by both humans or parsers to incorporate in realtime navigation and mapping functions. Here are some TML tags for the highway/transport sector:















many bridge authorities are starting to tweet out the status of their drawbridges:



this can be up, down,or out i.e. not functioning.

History

TML

TML

TML may refer to:* Taiwan Major League, a defunct professional baseball league in Taiwan* Tall Man lettering, a mixed capitalization system used to increase word differentiation* Thank Me Later, a 2010 album by Drake...

, SMML and the superset of RTML

RTML

RTML is a proprietary programming language used exclusively by Yahoo!'s Yahoo! Store and Yahoo! Site web hosting services.-History:...

 were developed by Jack D. Hidary. John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown

John Seely Brown is a researcher who specializes in organizational studies with a particular bent towards the organizational implications of computer-supported activities....

and other technologists advised in the development.

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