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Problems with Twitter…

2010-06-27 in News, This Place, Twitter by XiXiDu | 2 comments

Sorry, I noticed that there have been no news updates since early Friday. I tried using a Twitter backup service to copy all the links manually but even there lots of Tweets are missing.

Until I figure out what’s wrong, please go to twitter.com/XiXiDu where you can also subscribe via RSS.

If Twitter keeps being this buggy I might resort to something new like posting directly to this site and forward it to Twitter afterwards.

Or does anyone know a way to import RSS items as a daily digest to WordPress?

Tags: News, Twitter

Twitter To Become Truly Location-Aware

2009-08-21 in News by XiXiDu | No comments

We’re gearing up to launch a new feature which makes Twitter truly location-aware. A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. Folks will need to activate this new feature by choice because it will be off by default and the exact location data won’t be stored for an extended period of time. However, if people do opt-in to sharing location on a tweet-by-tweet basis, compelling context will be added to each burst of information.

Link: blog.twitter.com

More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location_awareness

Tags: api, latitude, location awareness, location-aware, longitude, Twitter

Twitter Support Request

2009-02-28 in Twitter by XiXiDu | No comments

I’ve just submitted a support request to Twitter.

I noticed that some status updates do not appear under twitter.com/XiXiDu or the RSS feed but do appear under twitter.com/home and in third party applications like twhirl.

Here are some missing status updates:
twitter.com/XiXiDu/statuses/1261707717
twitter.com/XiXiDu/statuses/1261755913
twitter.com/XiXiDu/statuses/1261775502
twitter.com/XiXiDu/statuses/1261755910

As you can see, I can access them directly. I can see them under /home and in twhirl. But people won’t be able to find them on my public twitter page /XiXiDu or the associated RSS feed.

The updates in question all seem to originate from my FriendFeed account which fetched them from my Google Reader suggestion page and automatically submits them to Twitter. Though I still have to see what happens when my WordPress Twitter Tools plugin tries to fetch them to post them on my blog, if they also show up. As long as that works…

Thanks in advance! I love Twitter!

For anyone having the same trouble I’ll post any answers here as well.

Tags: problem, status updates, support, trouble, tweets, Twitter

Twitter Updates for 2009-02-26

2009-02-26 in Twitter by Twitter | No comments

Just figured that there is probably a hack for Trackmania to show up as #1 rank on a server… #
How To See Comet Lulin http://ff.im/-1cVt4 #
These YouTube spammers are now really annoying! Anyone else is being invited now each day? #
Podcasts on Robot Ethics – http://is.gd/kMSR #
@8a22a My first retweet hehe! in reply to 8a22a #
Macropinna microstoma: A deep-sea fish with a transparent head and tubular eyes http://ff.im/-1d0Aw #
MapMyTracks http://ff.im/-1d8xI #
Compete http://ff.im/-1db07 #
http://compete.com/ – web traffic analysis of major services #
http://www.thirteen23.com/experiences/desktop/blu/ – Vista Twitter Client, haven’t tested it tho… #
Wonder if Twitter Tools is going to work tonight and post a daily digest of tweets to my WordPress blog #
I figured I haven’t tagged my Tweets yet…it may be too much hassle… #
Book Review: Kluge – The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind [Developing Intelligence] http://ff.im/-1dkM1 #
Forbes loses it again over evolution http://ff.im/-1dlD3 #
MITRE develops hemispheric camera for visual telepresence http://ff.im/-1dlD5 #
Twitter & Synchronisation/Crossposting http://ff.im/-1dnEw #
Carl Sagan’s transhumanist vision via The Pale Blue Dot http://ff.im/-1dooI #
http://vimeo.com/2822787 – Must see video (need sound!). Already posted it under “Carl Sagan’s The Pale Blue Do” #
Astronomy Picture of the Day – Comet Lulin – http://is.gd/6t0 #
Stem Cell Gamble http://ff.im/-1dqJW #
How to Think Like A Quantum Computer Programmer http://ff.im/-1dqK0 #
Fishing expedition reveals unexpected link between Alzheimer’s and prion diseases http://ff.im/-1dqJU #
Researchers Generate Functional Neurons From Engineered Stem Cells http://ff.im/-1dqK4 #
Microsoft Demos Augmented Vision http://ff.im/-1dqK6 #
Please Vote For Me http://ff.im/-1dqK2 #
The Health Effects of Social Networking http://ff.im/-1dqK8 #
Science of Watchmen http://ff.im/-1dqRJ #
WOOD CHOPPER FROM HELL HAS ARRIVED http://ff.im/-1dqRN #
CirculaFloor Robotic VR Movement http://ff.im/-1dqRL #
Brauswitch http://ff.im/-1dqRP #

Tags: News, Twitter

Twitter & Synchronisation/Crossposting

2009-02-25 in Lifelogging, News, Software by XiXiDu | No comments

Yes I took the plunge and started using Twitter as well. I already got an account since 2007 but only started to use Twitter frequently now. It’s very often just more convenient and timesaving to use Twitter than making a blog post via WordPress.

Since there are fine applications like twhirl, which uses Adobe Air, to tweet from your desktop it’s an ease to publish. Even better, there are lots of Twitter applications for mobile phones, especially the iPhone, that work very well so that you can update your status, i.e. publish on Twitter from everywhere!

In combination with FriendFeed you can have updates you made somewhere else – Flickr, YouTube, your blog, Google Reader, Facebook etc. – being automatically submitted to Twitter.

I think in future we will see a complete synchronisation of all data. We are almost there, but it’s still not simple to accomplish. Crossposting and synchronisation will simplify modern socializing and publishing a lot.

FriendFeed can do much but it can’t post all updates on WordPress. Though as I mentioned above, FriendFeed can publish updates from various services on Twitter. Now to have all that stuff also appear on your WordPress blog you’ll have to use a plugin called Twitter Tools. It can fetch all your Tweets and post each as post on your blog or, what I have chosen, as daily digest, tho weekly digest is also possible. But note: what you don’t want is a feedback loop between FriendFeed posting your blog posts to Twitter and Twitter Tools posting your Tweets to WordPress. To avoid this, just create a new user for Twitter Tools and exclude that user on FriendFeed by selecting the multiple authors option for your blog.

If you are using Second Life then you might want to try Twitterbox:

As it says above, Twitterbox is an object which enables one to post to and receive updates fromTwitter, when inside Second Life.

SLtweets, doing the same job, is a Heads UP Display that enables you to communicate with the outside world via Twitter from within Second Life.

I haven’t tested any of Twitter tools for Second Life, by the way.

What just came to my mind while writing this post, one of the things I’d like to see now is being able to tweet my current location or have it appear everywhere in real time

twitter.com/XiXiDu

Some links:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter
twhirl.org - Adobe Air Twitter Desktop Client
atebits.com/software/tweetie/ - The iPhone Application I use
kvetch.com
tweetburner.com
twitsig.com
twistori.com
twittercounter.com
hashtags.org

Tags: account, blogging, cloud, crossposting, interconnected, Lifelogging, micro-blogging, mobile, service, social network, Software, synchronisation, Twitter

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