Blaine Cook (programmer)

Cook is the principal co-author of the OAuth and WebFinger specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site Twitter.^[1] He has also worked for Yahoo! on the Fire Eagle project^[2] and for BT Group as part of their open source Osmosoft team.^[3] He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica.^[4] Poetica was acquired by Condé Nast in March 2016, and Cook remained with the company as a staff engineer.^[5]

• Cook's Home page
• "Why Twitter Matters" by Stephen Baker, Business Week (May 15, 2008)
• "Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving" by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News (April 23, 2008)
• "Twitter to jump off Ruby on Rails?" by Anthony Ha, The Industry Standard (May 1, 2008)
• "Busy Twitter a poster child for new communications" by Stephen Lawson, Computerworld (March 14, 2008))
• "Twitter’s to-do list: Become obsessive about uptime" by Larry Dignan, ZDNet (April 23, 2008)
• "Ireland not open for business, says Twitter innovator"^{[dead link]} by Kathryn Johnston The Times (February 8, 2009)