In 2014 the fine folks at Bug Labs launched Dweet.io, a free internet service built to allow connected devices to post short, ephemeral messages containing simple custom data payloads. The (excellent) idea behind the name is that was "Twitter for devices" and so the messages published were "dweets" (as in "device tweets"). I loved the idea and incorporated Dweet support in most of my IoT projects, valuing its easy way to publish and view status messages from devices that didn't have a display, serial port, or log. Want to know if the home weather station is operating properly? Check to see what its latest "dweet" contained and when it was posted, which you could do from any internet connected device anywhere.

Several weeks ago Dweet.io went silent, by which I mean the website disappeared altogether and the service stopped allowing connections to post or retrieve dweets. I struggled a bit to figure out why given the entire site vanished, but eventually reached someone at Buglabs who explained they'd shut everything down. Alas.

Happily some anonymous folks have launched Dweet.me, which looks very similar to the original but is still quite bareboned -- no documentation and no mention of client libraries, but their GitHub work is starting to grow and includes a Python client repo. Use of Dweet.me continues to be free, which is great. They're also occasionally active on Bluesky at @dweet.me

I'm cautiously exploring moving my devices onto Dweet.me as its API and interfaces are slightly different. For now anything here that depended on Dweet.io, e.g., my Dweet Viewer app, is broken. Sorry about that. I'll need to modify code compiled and loaded into each dweeting device plus a few Python-based applications on Raspberry Pi systems here and there. Much of that will find its way into GitHub repos associated with those projects. I'll then need to tweak things here to use Dweet.me. I'll keep you posted.

I want to express my appreciation to Bug Labs for conceiving, building and operating Dweet.io for over a decade! Hopefully it can live on as Dweet.me and perhaps grow as a community project.