Feedback seems to be the contest was too complex for people to grok easily. We're not extending the current contest - but plan to make the next one a bit easier to approach

Jeremy, Twitter info caching is simply an exception and a practical concession to Twitter rate limiting. There are 15k twitter ID's to lookup and there's no way that there are enough white-listed developers to provide a stateless lookup service.

Well I would guess this is a neat way of implementing a subroutine that assembles a chain of other wasepoints, but I guess you're going to try to hack the program counter so that you get a hint that an incoming message is actually a return from a sub-routine? This would not be kosher. I will add restrictions on PC modification that makes this more explicit.

Hi anonymous, we have to be able to verify the winning computation with our own kickoff message, so the first part won't be an issue. The second part yes might be an issue, but the computation will be difficult enough that people will need to use multiple points for the solution. We will also more definition on the scope of a WASE point.

Well after you parse the message:
If there are three bitly's, then they are output, input1, and input 2
If there are two bitly's, then they are output, input
If there is one bitly, then that bitly is both input and output

Each WASEpoint is free to decide whether it will accept multiple inputs, or emit a message with multiple inputs. You have to read the doc or code for a WASEpoint to decide whether you can use it or not.

sorry, looks like no PHP

ok Jon Crosby has volunteered to review any Scala winner! Scala is in!

Incrementing & forward jumps is ok.

If we can get an engineyard developer willing to review scala entries we'll add it. Stay tuned.

Well, we wanted to give you the basics first so you can get started on the parsing/http/twitter foundations without giving people who happened to read the post early, first dibs on interesting WASEpoints. But without getting into too specifics, one of the challenge computations will be math based, and one will be text based.