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Rapid prototyping of Twitter apps?

I'm looking forward to building a bunch of Twitter apps for a website and wondering which solution package worked best when trying to quickly prototype small Twitter apps?

Google App Engine + Python / Django? Google App Engine + Java? Heroku + RoR? Nice old lamp?

Also, any advice on the specific frameworks / libraries in use speed up the process?

[Note: I'm looking to use the Twitter API for this and build apps based on Twitter itself)

Thanks.

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Getting RoR running on Heroku is ridiculously easy and they have a 100% free offer so it's a good way to get started. Interacting with Twitter from Rails is also pretty easy, especially with things like TwitterAuth .



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I have development experience in LAMP, Java and Django, so I'll weigh in.

First of all, it really depends on individual abilities. If you are a Java programmer, you will have to learn Python in order to try using Django, so you will have a great initial investment time to speed up.



Skill levels aside, I'd put money in Django / Python or CakePHP / PHP. Django has a ready-made admin panel that's easy to customize, but CakePHP is a simple MVC implementation in PHP, and PHP is pretty easy.

Not sure if you've considered hosting, but it might be worth looking into. It will be much easier for you to get cheap PHP hosting than you could for something like Django or Java.

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I am using Java (via Jetty webserver) and JTwitter . It's easy to use and easy to debug.

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For Java developers, Twitter4j is a great twitter library. Share this with the Google App Engine and you can run a sample Twitter app in a matter of hours!

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If you want to replicate Twitter check out Laconica

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there is groovy and grails: "How to build Twitter in 40mins with Grails" http://europe.springone.com/europe-2009/presentation/How+to+bui

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