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[[Image:Blaine Cook FOWA Miami 2008.jpg|thumb|Blaine Cook at FOWA Miami]]

'''Blaine Cook''' (born 19 December 1980) is a Canadian software engineer, now living and working in London, UK. He is the principal co-author of the [[OAuth]] and [[Webfinger]] specifications. He is the former lead developer of social networking site [[Twitter]].<ref>[http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9926813-36.html Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving | The Social - CNET News.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> He has also worked for [[Yahoo!]] on the [[Fire Eagle]] project<ref>[https://techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/yahoo-hires-former-twitter-chief-architect-blaine-cook/ Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and for [[BT Group]] as part of their [[Open Source]] [[Osmosoft]] team.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050419122607/http://www.osmosoft.com/ Blaine Cook, Osmosoft.com Alumni]</ref> He was founder of collaborative text editing startup Poetica.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20010722035538/http://poetica.com/ ]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Poetica was acquired by Condé Nast in March 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/conde-nast-acquires-poetica-twitter-engineer-1201719426/|title=Conde Nast Acquires U.K. Digital Publishing Startup Founded by Ex-Twitter Engineer|last=Spangler|first=Todd|date=2016-03-01|newspaper=Variety|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-13}}</ref>

==References==

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* [http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9927877-36.html "Twitter techie Blaine Cook talks about leaving"] by Caroline McCarthy, [[CNET News]] (April 23, 2008)

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080529001019/http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/05/01/twitter-jump-ruby-rails "Twitter to jump off Ruby on Rails?"] by Anthony Ha, ''The Industry Standard'' (May 1, 2008)

* [https://archive.is/20121230170814/http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id%3b1035350780%3bfp%3b4%3bfpid%3b1398720840;1035350780;fp;4;fpid;1398720840 "Busy Twitter a poster child for new communications"]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} by Stephen Lawson, ''Computerworld'' (March 14, 2008))

* [http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8590 "Twitter’s to-do list: Become obsessive about uptime"] by Larry Dignan, [[ZDNet]] (April 23, 2008)

* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article5683931.ece "Ireland not open for business, says Twitter innovator"] by Kathryn Johnston [[The Times]] (February 8, 2009)