Tag: twitter
Send your tweets even when Twitter is down, with Twiddict
Ever feel like your blood pressure is through the roof on those frequent occasions when Twitter is down and you just have to update about something important? Like ‘I just had a cup of tea and am reading my RSS Feeds now’. Personally, I feel like I’m going to have a cardiac arrest if I don’t update that very second.
Thankfully a new Twitter client has launched today, just in time for Apple’s WWDC event where Twitter will undoubtedly go down. Twiddict is an easy way to update, but sadly doesn’t display your friends’ tweets – for that, you may need FriendFeed. It pings the Twitter API to check whether it’s up, and if it’s one of those days where the IT guys are taking a holiday, it puts your update…
What to do when Twitter is down: erm, delete your account?
Ode to Twitter:
Oh Twitter, how I loved thee in the heady days of February 2007, when I first had the pleasure of tweeting. Then, just a few months later, I abandoned you for Facebook. When all my friends caught on to Twitter in early 2008, like magic I remembered my log-in details and started tweeting the amount of cups of tea consumed, but now, due to the frequent down-time, I’ve signed up to Plurk.
Twitter, I worry about you. I worry because sites such as When Twitter Is Down exist, which rotates dozens of entertaining options for you to do when such an occasion happens (above). Which, my old love, is every couple of days. When I saw the site Is Twitter Down mentioned today on ye olde towne scribe TechCrunch, I knew our long relationship was over…
Web 2.0 companies aren't making money, say investors
A large number of Web 2.0 companies aren’t making any money, or at least no revenue, despite being popular, according to entrepreneurs and financiers in the know.
Many sites offering social networking, providing space for user-generated content, and offering other cool online services, just aren’t successful when it comes to bringing in the cash. Some observers are predicting that the myriad of startup companies currently trying to get noticed will be gone in the next couple of years, leaving just a handful of financial successes…
Lazy blogger's guide to using Twitter to control your light switch
Control Lights with Twitter from Justin Wickett on Vimeo
Our office is fairly obsessed with Twitter, which reminds me of…oh, when we were last obsessed with Twitter, a year ago. It seems to be the one social-networking site that pulls people back after vowing never to return to that Twitter-town again.
I think I’m not the only one who would readily admit to wanting the skills and know-how to set up this home automation service, like Justin Wickett here. Using an INSTEON switch and a computer, whenever he tweets a specific command from his mobile, the PC turns the light on and off. Perfect for lazy bloggers who just can’t be arsed walking five metres to the light-switch, and for…
What would Twitter look like in 1649…?
A fun look at what Twitter would be like in 1649 – excuse me, Warbbler…
MySpace to share your details with eBay, Twitter and Yahoo but only if you want
It’s funny, isn’t it? On the one hand we have infinite remote security where you have to tell someone the middle name of the first person you snogged before you can buy an ice-cream over the phone and then online we’re chucking personal information about like there’s no tomorrow.
Sites like Facebook have seen us divulge everything short of our bank details – although I’m sure an application for that is on its way – and now it seems they’re going to share their info with each other – with our consent of course.
MySpace has launched MySpace Data Availability as part the Yahoo Open Social Foundation…
Facebook gets cross-platform blogging application: Blog It from Six Apart
Hoping to appeal to high-powered bloggers who own multiple blogs and have a strong presence on Facebook, Six Apart has launched the Blog It application to let users update their blogs and “microblogs” directly from Facebook.
Six Apart are the creators of TypePad, amongst other services, but wanted to create an application that allows a wide range of platforms to be updated. Around a dozen popularw blogging platforms — including WordPress, Movable Type, Vox, and Blogger — can be updated, as well as microblogging services such as Twitter and Pownce…
Twinkle: Twitter for iPhone with Locate Me for geo-action
I can’t see the appeal of Twitter. I really don’t want people knowing exactly what I’m doing all the time, either out of shame or embarrassment that I’m spending yet more of my life just staring at a computer screen again.
But if you’re self-centred enough to think that everyone needs to know what you’re doing and thinking RIGHT NOW and ALL OF THE TIME because your life is JUST ONE BIG CRAZY PARTY OF FUN, perhaps Twinkle might be for you – it’s a very fancy new Twitter app…
Time to close down your Twitter account! The UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is Tweeting!
According to reports, the Prime Minister is on Twitter.
Unsure as to whether it’s actually him who’s logging those entries (which are mostly feeds from the 10 Downing Street website’s news feed), we’re quite impressed with the staid black background and ominous ’10’ Twitter logo. With 146 followers, they’re not actually following anyone themselves, not even the Dogg himself, Snoop Dogg.
Gordon Brown is likely to be the world’s first head of government to use Twitter. Which just begs the question, really – has Twitter jumped the shark, then?…
Twitter's first marriage proposal?
WIRED reports that the increasingly popular Twitter microblogging service had its first public proposal of marriage yesterday morning.
Max Kiesler, a San Francisco-based web designer, asked his co-worker and partner of 15 years, Emily Chang, for her hand in marriage…