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- Twixxer Lets You Share Photos and Video via TwitterMarch 17 2008
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One thing people love about Pownce is the ability to share videos, pics and other files. They make it pretty painless and is something I think Twitter could use. I don’t think it’s mandatory to make or break the service because Twitter is used more on mobile devices and various clients, but it certainly could enhance the experience for those using the web interface at Twitter.com. Enter Twixxer, a greasemonkey script making it drop dead simple to share media via twitter. It even automagically used TinyURL, which any good program for Twitter should use due to the 140 character limit. Give Twixxer a spin and let me know what you think. I’m digging it so far.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twixxer, Video, Photos
- New Feature: Swoosh!February 26 2008
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I know I’m late posting this, but if you haven’t noticed Twitter has a new way to reply to tweets: just click on the swoosh. Every message in your timeline now has a little swoosh icon at the end, just click it to automatically insert the correct @username for the reply. This is excellent as sometimes the display name and username are different. I mainly use the web (or snitter) for Twittering adn this is a very welcome new feature.
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- Twitter To Charge Per Message?February 26 2008
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Nicole writes:
Twitter to monetize by credit based system?Is Twitter going to set up a credit based system for sending / receiving messages? A screen I saw the other day suggests so. It was from my mobile, so I did not react in time to make a copy, but it basically said to me: “Not enough credits to send message”. via
Twitter has yet to show signs of how they plan to make money, but I doubt it’ll be on a per message rate. This goes back to the debate on paying to send emails. If that every happens it’ll only hurt casual users and help business users as they’ll get bulk discounts and defeat the purpose anyway. If Twitter was to charge users at all, I imagine it’ll be for premium packages similar to how Google lets you buy a business version of their free email (gmail). Twitter could charge users based on how many messages they think they’ll need per month instead of per message and/or for increased reliability. Flickr follows the same model. Everyone can use the service for free, but if you want unlimited you’ve got to pay for a pro account. I know a lot of twitter folks who would be happy to pay for a Twitter pro account.
We already get nickel and dimed to death as it is, if Twitter was to charge per message I think it would kill the service instantly and put Pownce and other competitors in the perfect position to tak
- Teach Your Plants To Twitter When They Need WaterFebruary 26 2008
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Geeks seem to be very DIY kind of folks. I think it’s because we like to write our own code and do just about everything ourselves. There also seems to be a huge swing back towards doing things yourself, like doing your own home repairs, working on your car, building your own electronics, etc and I love it. I’ve always been drawn to tearing things apart and putting them back together again. I remember trying to build a radio to talk to astronauts when I was 8 or 9 years old. I failed miserably, but I think that’s because I used toys (Simon Says) as major components. That, and I have no idea how in the world to do any that sort of thing. The fine folks over at MAKE magazine have taken up the void left by shop teachers and every issue teaches you how to make something, so maybe one day I’ll be able to make that radio after all. In the mean time though, they’ve got a kick ass project that’s sold me on subscribing to the magazine: HOW TO - Make plants talk! They’ll Twitter you when they need to be watered (and more). I wonder what other wicked things we could adapt this kind of project for. Monitor the temperature in my house, monitor food temperature, fire or carbon monoxide detectors, man, the list could go on.
via Nicki
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- File Sharing Finally Arrives on TwitterFebruary 12 2008
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Twittershare lets mac users and web users upload files and share them via Twitter. While html links have worked for some time now, other features like emebedding video, sending files and other media have been limited. Third party apps like this one make it possible. These features are common among Twitter’s competitors like Pownce, but they lack the robust SMS capabilities that Twitter has. I don’t use the SMS that much and most of the updates I see are from pc/mac clients or the web. Sure, during events its nice to have the SMS, but would the advanced features make Twitter more useful for what people are using it for: sharing things they find on the web? Regardless, there’s not shortage of cool little helper apps like Twittershare, which looks like one of the best.
via ReadWritWeb
Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, TwitterShare, Twitter Tools