Category Archives: twitter

Top Twitter Mobile Phone Applications

Apr
21
2007

Twitter goes Mobile

Well Twitter is well over a year old now and pushing the edges of the G2G universe (thank you Bronwen of Perth Norg ). As expected people have found a use for this technology, from social chat, help desk functions, news broadcast, micro blogging, and storytelling. It almost seems now when you get geeks together; twitter will be topic of conversion, out come the mobile phones and the twittering begins. Point in case the Perth Webloggers Meetup this month (April 2007).

Twitter Explosion

Mar
10
2007
Explosion!

Well its SxSWi time again, and the usual suspects have descended on Austin, Texas (USA). It’s all over Twitter, Flickr, and the blogosphere already (as I watch from the sidelines). The guys from Twitter are making a big splash this year, to the point that the Twitter has been ramped up dramatically. I suspect the downtime for Twitter the other day was more on the network realign and increase in resources front than streamlining of the application. The statistics on Twitter are just amazing on the explosion of its use.

WTF Twitter - Interface and Iterative Development

Feb
7
2007

So what happens when we change the interfaces and the things around us too many times, even if it’s only to a small degree? Well we have to relearn it all. We mouse around looking for the same functionality, thinking “where has it gone, I can find it”. This is frustrating. Very frustrating.

Not that much for me, I think, I’m used to change.

Well I was wrong. I hate the changes to an interface, especially when it is starting to make sense and the development team seems to be listening to suggestions.

Twitter Tools and Widgets

Jan
19
2007

We all know about twitter, the online social networking/IRC thing. (got its own wiki now too). Well it’s been around for a while now (it’s been operational since March 2006). So with something as mature as this you would expect an extension of the API onto the desktop and generally outside the browser.

And so there are a range of desktop tools that allow you to access Twitter outside of the browser. What are they like? Some good some not so good. Is there a perfect one? Sadly there isn’t. They all lack in some point or another. Here’s a short overview: