[wp-hackers] Blackbird Pie: Twitter API functionality in Core?

[Mike Schinkel]

Hi all,

Seeing the announcement of Blackbird Pie[1] makes me wonder if there will a near-term inclusion of low-level Twitter API functionality into WordPress core, or is this just a plugin feature to be used only on WordPress.com?

I'm especially interested in this because my team is right now building a class to interface with the Twitter API to enable flexibility that is not in any of the plugins that I've seen (they all seem to implement functionality for the end-user, they don't really provide API functionality for the developer.) 

If such an API will be included with WordPress core I'd like to use it rather than duplicate its functionality. Basically what I want to know is: 1.) if it will be added to core, 2.) when it will be added to core, 3.) when I can get a look at the code and 4.) who I need to contact for that (Justin Shreve?)

Thanks in advance.

-Mike
[1] http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/bring-tweets-to-your-content/