Twitter Direct Message API method now enforcing 140 char limit Betcha didnt know that did yea? That you can send 240+ Charter messages using Direct Message through Twitter. That is, until now. My Twitter application, TwittFilter.com does not stop you from sending a message that is over 140 char. It tells you how many char you have typed, but if you want to type 2000… Read More
Twitter going to OAuth ONLY in 2 weeks. You have been warned. {UPDATE} Well, seem with all the issues Twitter has been having lately they have pushed this back a month, perhaps 2. But dont get lacks, its going to happen, so you may as well get on it now. The end time are nigh. Yes, for all of us first gen Twitter App dev’s our old… Read More
Update to Iphone App twittelator approved in 7 hours! My how things have changed. I just got a tweet from Andrew Stone that his app Twittelator got approved in 7 hours!! Wow, a new record. Well, ok, perhaps not a gold metal type new record, but that is still pretty fast. So the question is; how? Well lets think about it. What if Apple… Read More
Twittelator Pro 3.5 is out.. and its packed with goodness Wow, talk about lots of stuff. Having written a twitter client myself, I know the basics you need to use twitter. Then there are the extras… then there is Twittelator Pro! Gezz.. Everything is in here. Check out the new features.. Recently added features include: Complete Twitter Lists support to create, view, edit your lists,… Read More
A new Uber iphone twitter app: Tweetie 2 I like Tweetie. I wrote an article for iphonelife on iphone twitter apps (it not out yet, but here is a short version) and of all the apps I tried, I used tweetie the most when I’m not using twittFilter. (twittFilter is a web app and my fave given that I wrote it). So Gizmodo,… Read More
Send Facebook updates to Twitter.. to the Extreme! If you can beat them. Eat them! That’s right, Facebook is going after Twitter full force now. Seem that you can now not only update your twitter account from facebook, but all kinds of controls on how its done. From there blog.. “If you manage a Facebook Page, you now will be able to decide… Read More
Retweet to become an officially supported function on twitter The story already broke a number of hours ago, but still for anyone who does Twitter dev, this is pretty big news. Basically, anyone who builds a twitter client has retweet as a feature. Basically all we do populate the send field with the selected message prepend with a “RT”. Now (not all) clients use… Read More
What’s the best iphone app for twitter? Depends on how you use it I wrote an article for iphoneLife looking at a sampling of twitter applications for the iphone. The idea of the article was not to exhaustively compare and rate them because that is a losing battle. Everyone uses twitter differently and as such, what is a great app for some people, is overkill for others. So… Read More
Twitter is the new business card I ran out of business cards a few months back and never bothered to get more. As such, I find myself in a spot when people ask for my card. Normally I take theirs and intend to email them when I get home. However, as with business cards since as far back as I can… Read More
Twittelator Pro vs. Tweetie – FIGHT! Guest post by Kevin Rochowski – @thunderberry Despite it’s enormous popularity, Twitter has no official iPhone app of its own. Developers, seeking to plug this gap, have taken up the challenge to make their own, ensuring that there is no lack of native clients to choose from. Today, we take two of the more popular… Read More
Special #iranElection search filter added to twittFilter I put this together pretty quickly in just a few hours, so I’m sure there are plenty of bugs, but I wanted to get it out there as soon as possible. here is the link: http://www.twittfilter.com/iranElection.php# A problem I have with twitter search during the election is some many RT’ed messages saying the same thing.… Read More
Zannel creates a #iranelection channel Today Zannel released a modification to its service to follow hashtags from twitter to support people posting media regarding the #iranElection hashtag. This would have been really useful 24 hours ago, but still, a great potential resource. Since this was just live today, there has not been a lot of action on the site, but… Read More
Twitter, #iranelection and social networks {update} I created a search on twittFilter that hides duplicate from a twitter search. This is useful for #iranElection here is the link: http://www.twittfilter.com/iranElection.php# I’m sure most of you who use twitter are already aware of what has been going on. Because of the media blocks in Iran, social media tools like twitter, friendfeed, flickr… Read More
Twitter reschedules in response to Iranian protests This is how you know your having an impact on the world. When you cannot perform an upgrade to your service because a group of users, say.. IRAN! is relaying on your system to communicate with each other because the government is blocking media systems. Tonight, twitter was suppose to go down for 90min (which… Read More
Twitterrific fix is now available. When the Twitpocalypse kicked off 2 days back, (story here) I figured most major apps would have been ready for it. I was wrong. I also figured, well, there will be a fix in 24 hrs. Wrong again. Its Sunday night and I finally saw Twitterrific after I manually refreshed updates. I installed the update and… Read More
Twitpocalypse claims more iPhone victims then I would have guessed Its not like we were not warned or anything. I knew this was coming 2 weeks ago. Twitpocalypse is twitters version of Y2K where the unique identifier associated to each tweet will exceed 2,147,483,647. This afternoon, I spend all of 10 min fixing the db in twittFilter to handle the changes and all good. (lux… Read More
An odd twitter bug if you’ve changed your password {note: if you are looking for the stencil story, click here } I’m drafting an article about twitter applications for the iphone. (if you have a fav iphone twitter app, let me know). I changed my password while I test out some apps and I’ve experienced some login issues. It’s even messed up twittFilter. (for… Read More
How Twitter became my second email system I’m not the first to realise this, but I find I’m sending far more DMs (direct messages) through twitter then I’m sending emails to communicate with people. And why is this? Well.. … its not because I can write more. Only 140 char and no attachments. … its not because notification is better. I get… Read More
Why I hate spymaster, but was fine with SXSW Assassin A new twitter game has started up called Spymaster. The backlash has already started, but there is still enough spymaster messages out there that make me want to write a filter (on twittfilter) to hide all tweets with spymaster on it. Now if you remember back at SXSW, there was something similar called Assassin where… Read More
Twitter as a Foo spreadsheet. No value, but very cool! The funny thing is, this actually works! Yes, this fall under ‘random’… Read More