TwitterFavs

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Mar 082010

Spencer Schoeben created a great new twitter utility, TwitterFavs, which lets you set up a second Twitter account that automatically retweets your favorites from your primary Twitter account.

You can follow my Twitter favorites at @mike3kfavs.

Posted by mike at 11:02 pm Tagged with:

Tweetie comes to the Mac

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Apr 202009

My favorite iPhone twitter application, Tweetie, is now available for the Mac. It’s replaced Twhirl & Nambu as my favorite Twitter client.

Tweetie’s user interface is clean & gorgeous. It has the features I want in a Twitter client: separate views for friend’s tweets, replies, and direct messages, and makes it easy to track new tweets by maintaining the proper scroll position to show current tweets until you explicitly scroll.

Atebits paid a lot of attention to detail. Animation effects are a nice touch, without being annoying. Double clicking brings up the user’s profile or all tweets in the reply threads. Most importantly, Tweetie doesn’t get in your face, so you can concentrate on work without being distracted, unlike many other twitter clients that demand your attention, yet you can easily see when new tweets arrive.

The only features Tweetie is missing are groups, saved searches, and trends.

Posted by mike at 9:57 pm Tagged with:

Twitter FAIL

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Feb 042009

I’ve been locked out of my Twitter account all night due to “too many unsuccessful login attempts”, thanks to Yoono. I haven’t used Firefox in several months, and before that I was using 3.1 betas, which aren’t compatible with Yoono, I had changed my Twitter password since the last time I had used Yoono, so it still had my old password. I haven’t been able to change my password in Yoono without it trying to log in first and locking me out once again. This is very frustrating.

Posted by mike at 11:49 pm Tagged with:

Plurk is not Twitter

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Jun 022008

Plurk is yet another site attempting to compete with Twitter. Although it has some interesting features, like the timeline view and the ability to share pictures & videos, it still seems lacking. Plurk doesn’t support SMS or IM, and the lack of an API means there’s no desktop client.

Twitter’s main problem is scalability and not being able to handle the user load. There’s no indication that Plurk or other systems can handle that load either. I’m more confident in Twitter’s ability to redesign, re-architect and scale their service, since they have the funding and bandwidth to support their growth.

Posted by mike at 3:13 pm Tagged with: ,

Is Twitter Down?

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May 212008

I wrote a simple sidebar widget that answers the question “Is Twitter Down?”. You can download the widget here. Simply place it in wp-content/plugins, enable it in the plugin admin screen, and add it to your sidebar.

Posted by mike at 10:44 pm Tagged with:

Twitter Spam

Web 1 Response »
Mar 122008

Today I got 15 follow requests on Twitter from political campaigns, all seem to be unofficial. I’ve blocked all of them. If this continues, I may protect updates to prevent those unsolicited requests. I do NOT support ANY of those candidates who requested to follow me and I dislike most of them. The only candidate I follow on Twitter is Barack Obama and I want to keep it that way.

Posted by mike at 7:36 pm Tagged with: ,
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