I like to keep a few Twitter feeds in my RSS reader, but can never remember how to get them from Twitter. I found “Creating an RSS feed of a users Twitter timeline“… However, I found there is a simpler method (for now)–replace USERNAME with the twitter name. This probably fails when a user changes [...]
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All Twitter clients are worthless
That was my thought today as I was looking at the wonderfully developed, yet totally worthless, TweetDeck. Tweetdeck is so far my favorite, despite playing with Seesmic Desktop, and sobees bDule. It seems like everyone has their own Twitter client: there are Excel clients, shell script clients, Perl clients, and many online Twitter interfaces. What [...]
The democratization of the news #cnnfail #IranElection
Social Media, especially Twitter, is so much faster than the traditional media channels at spreading the word about hot topics. I’ve been following @BreakingNews since they used @BreakingNewsOn, and found that I heard about news 1-2 hours before the “breaking news” placeholder showed up on major news sites. It looks like CNN has demonstrated this [...]
Is the #Twitpocalypse overhyped?
Initially heard through Programmable Web: The Twitpocalypse is Near: Will Your Twitter Client Survive?, twitter is rapidly approaching the maximum for a 32-bit signed int. You can view the countdown here. This got a also mention at GigaOM: Today, We Think Think Twitter is Dead (for now). While the Twitpocalypse was not the primary topic [...]
The rampant dismissing of social media
(This was inspired by Jason Fall’s post on the Sustainability of Social Media) What’s lost in the dismissing of social media as a fad is the fact that social media is simply an extension, through technology, of what has been around for ages. Determined people have always found a way to connect with others with [...]
Breaking down Tweetdeck configuration and storage.
I decided to look at the possibility of eventually exporting the configuration data contained in TweetDeck: You can find the groups, friends, and columns settings in a SQLite database file in a path like: C:\Documents and Settings\{USERNAME}\Application Data\TweetDeckFast.{some hideously long hex string}\Local Store\td_{version?}_{twitter username}.db I used SQLite database browser to look at this file. (I [...]
Twitter Game #stucksonggame
I think I’ve just invented a new Twitter game. Reference a song that will get stuck in people’s heads until they expel the demons by listening to the song, or replacing the song with another “catchy” song. When you’re caught by a “stuck song”, you have to either pass that song on, or replacement song. [...]
TwitterThreads.com – what I’ve been looking for. Almost.
I just searched on “twitter” and “threads” in google. What I found was TwitterThreads.com. Simple, huh? It’s not 100% what I had envisioned: My vision was probably something more like expandable threading by author sorted by date of most recent update. The TwitterThreads version looks like it shows all posts that you’d normally see if [...]
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