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
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
Instant messaging, google talk and twitter comes to Truphone Look what I got in the email from the interwebs.. We are writing to you to let you know that in the next 24 hours, your Truphone for the iPhone application will be automatically upgraded with some exciting new features*! These new features are: 1. Instant Messaging (IM) IM will be added, meaning that you… Read More
Twitter apps for the iphone via Gizmodo This is a pretty good post, matt buchanan put a list of twitter apps for the iphone together with screenshots and grades. Now I’m using Twinkle myself where before I was using twitterific, but fount twitterific buggy. Matt has Tweetie as the best overall, but eh, I dont know, seems to much kitchen sink to… 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