Did twitter lose some of my messages? Yes and no The last week has not been kind to the twitter servers. As someone who has a twitter product (twittfilter.com) I get to see (and hear) everything that goes wrong in twitter land. A combination of servers issues and a few virus (kinda) attacks on the system has forced twitter to moat certain bits of itself… Read More
Twittfilter: a twitter address book, scored new follower email … and much more I’ve been working on TwittFilter for quite awhile now, and I think it’s at a level where I can call it Beta. Not Google Beta, but Beta is the way we used to know it. Mostly there, but not fully perfect or fully bug free. Note: With twitter moving to full OAuth, not all features… Read More
Friendfilter: replace your twitter email with a scored new follower email Friendfilter, a service of Twittfilter.com has gone Beta! Currently, when you get a new follower, twitter sends you a generic email saying.. you got a new follower.. Well, great, but that does not tell me anything. Friendfilter is a service that will check for new followers and score them relative to you. A scorecard is… Read More
My personal project Twittfilter is now in Alpha Twittfilter is actually an old project. I started it last Spring but only shared it with a few friends. The first feature of Twittfilter is the ability to send you an email if a term (typically your twitter name) is found in the public stream. Since you get an email you do not have to… Read More
The making of twittfilter – twitter search bot So, given that I work in technology, and web2.0 for that matter, whatever that means, one would think all of my blogs would be about software. And yet, this is my first. Now many of you know I have been playing around with building a twitter service to deal with twitter overload. The easy fix… Read More