Posts Tagged ‘ twitter ’

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19
May

First impressions of Twitter for iPhone(formerly Tweetie)

Seems to be a decent update, has a number of interesting features. I encountered a couple of quick frustrations with it:

  1. I had to re-enter my credentials. Seems to me they could have converted this themselves.
  2. My direct messages that I have already read were marked unread, and the only way to mark them read again was to tap on them to read them. All 250 of them. Should have a mark all as read feature.
  3. Tweetie had this issue too, but I wish it would show in your timeline the tweets you retweet. (this is of course a feature request seeing as it didn’t have this functionality before)

Apart from these 2 things, I like it ok. UPDATE: Although I do miss the little broken barrier that indicates that the current update began here. Makes it easier to catch up after having quit the application.

I do love the search features, and trending topics, and the nearby tweets. These are all welcome additions, all in all a great job, only a couple of annoyances that could have been avoided pretty easily. I am looking forward to future features!

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27
Jan

Twitter, firefox, and back surgery

As you may have noticed, I have started using twitter. I am doing this in the hopes that I will keep up an online presence a little better, especially if more people are paying attention to it. Right now it is sending nightly updates, but I may turn that down after a bit. Depends on how redundant it all becomes.

I recently (2 weeks ago) had back surgery, and am recovering nicely. During this recovery time I decided to get caught up in the latest web 2.0 tools that are out there, so I joined twitter, Del.icio.us, and a few other sites. You will start seeing some of that information showing up here, and hopefully I will start writing more about some of the interesting things I am messing with.

One of the things I have done is I have installed a number of useful plugins to firefox which allow me to have more access to these tools. I’ll write up some more of that soon, its been a whirlwind of fun trying these things out.