Tweaking Twitter With Greasemonkey
First off you will need to install Greasemonkey for Firefox.
Then just click on the link I have included for each script and clink "install this script". Then enjoy!
Here are some of the scripts I recommend.
Endless Tweets
Loads older tweets endlessly when you're scrolling on a Twitter timeline. Bonus feature: Quotably.com integration.
Adds reader posts to twitter when clicked. (Used via Greader)
Automatically refresh Twitter's home page every X seconds. Postpone refresh when user is typing and after each update.
Updates live the twitter home/replies/public timeline without browser refresh
Previewing twitpic.com/* links on Twitter.
Twitter Enhancements: Retweet This
Append a retweet button to the end of each twitter entry.
Duplicates twitter navigation at the top of the status box + adds a "send personal message" link besides every user name on the timeline
Delete ALL your twitter direct messages from twitter.com.
Highlights replies directed at you in timelines
12seconds Adds More Awards
12seconds announced today that they have added new awards. As some of you may have already noticed one of them is the 12! award. This award is given when you have reached 12 posts. You can also receive the 20:12 award when you reach 101 updates. They are also starting to give out random awards as well.
I really think 12seconds has done a great job with the awards. AFTER ALL I love fluffing my online ego.
A New Twitter UI Coming?
Last night I seen this tweet. I just actually wonder what @ev considers (Coming Soon) to be. In Twitter terms this could actually be, oh, lets say around 2010? I mean think about it. These are the people that still have the status message saying they are working hard on fixing IM features. What are your thoughts? Have you seen any secret screenshots?
Don't get me wrong I am far from a Twitter hater but sheesh, I would like them to actually keep their promises. That is all.
Online Tweet-UP 3.0 The Day After
Last night we implemented a new format. The first hour of the show was dedicated to Twitter related topics. The second half of the show opened up to the usual free for all Tweet-UP talk.
I think the format really helped the show and offered some great content for our listeners. Thanks again to all that came, and I couldn't do it without you!
Below you will find the archive of the show and a little about what we covered.
Content
In this show we talked about FaceYourManga and it's love/hate relationships with the Twitter community. Tweetbots, Newspapers on Twitter, Free custom Twitter backgrounds, Blackbird a Blackberry Twitter client, and Twitterfeed were other topics that were reviewed.
Myspace Mail Notifications Get Better
Now I am going to admit that at one time I was indeed a Myspace freak. I would find myself chatting with long lost friends and family throughout every day.
The one complaint I had with their mail/message service is that when I was notified via email I had a new message I would have to physically go to my account log in then read the message. This seemed to me time consuming and redundant. I always wondered why the never implemented the actual message to me in the email.
I just noticed yesterday they have added this ability. When email notifications are now sent a portion of the message can be seen embedded into the email, rather than having to physically sign in to see if the message deserves an immediate response or not.
Online Tweet-UP 3.0 Thursday August 21st 9PM EST
Tomorrow night at 9PM EST will be the third Online Tweet-UP. I would like to invite all of you and your friends to join us to test out our new lineup.
This new lineup will consist with Twitter related news, sites, apps and more. Then once we have completed this discussion we will then move on to the "free talk". This way we will somewhat stay on track.
Remember be there 9PM! You can get into the chatroom and call in 15 minutes before the show starts! See you there!
I Want To Connect With You!
He everyone I am taking today to connect with you all across the main services I use. I would LOVE to add all of you to my various accounts. I know most of you I follow, however I may be missing some on different services. Please add me on these sites!
GTalk/GoogleReader - Add Me! tw3nty3ight@gmail.com
I want to chat with you as well as see what you share in Google Reader!
Flickr - Add Me!
I want to see your photos!
Friendfeed - Add Me!
I want to see your LifeStream!
12seconds.tv - Add Me!
I want to see those short videos you have!
Toluu - Add Me!
What feeds do you read?
12seconds Adds Awards! Fluff Your Ego!
12seconds announced yesterday that they are implementing a new awards feature. These awards are small buttons that will show in your profile as seen in the picture. This is a really unique and compelling addition to 12seconds. I like it! Of course I do already have the "1200" and "alpha" awards so I am pumped! I will be hoping to get more! Great job guys!
I have 2 invites left to 12seconds. If you need one email me or leave a comment with your email address.
Here is the announcement straight from 12seconds.
This week we want to introduce a new feature: Awards
Awards will appear in the right hand sidebar right above the 12second Challenge. We will issue awards for moments in history or individual accomplishments. To begin, we'll issue two awards...
1. First 1200 12er Award
This is for the first 1200 registered users of 12seconds. If you're among the first 1200, you're stoked. This is award is now retired and can never be issued again. We are burning the photoshop file with the design for this award as we speak.If you'd like to see an example of this award, check out tw3nty3ight.
2. Alpha Member Award
Let's face it, you've put up with some bugs. You were smart enough to sign up early and play with it before it was a ubiquitous service that changed the landscape of social media. You deserve an award. Once we go into beta (which isn't long now) this award will be retired.3. 12second Challenge Special Award: Olympics Week!
This week on the 12second Challenge we're going to do a special edition - Olympics Week. Each day we'll have 12second Challenge where you'll compete for the ever-so-rare 12second Olympic Award. We will pick one person each day who best "represented" in the Challenge. We'll pick based on effort, humor and skill. The winner will get an Olympic Award on their profile and will be featured on our homepage for the entire day after the award was given. So, do your stretches and make your country proud.
Let's Make This One BIGGER! Online Tweet-UP 2.0
Hey everyone! This is just a reminder that tomorrow will be the second ever Online Tweet-UP. I am happy to say that the first one was a huge hit and is STILL being downloaded!
Tomorrow night at 9PM EST we will start the Tweet-UP, I am officially welcoming EVERYONE from Twitter to join us. Lets see how many people we can get in this show. I would really like to see some people to come in that are Twitter app developers, so if you know any tell them to stop in and we will get them on the call!
Remember you do not have to call in to join the Tweet-UP. There is a chat room as well. and you can listen to the streamed calls. If you would like to call in please do!
Please don't forget I can't get the word out without the help from you! So PLEASE tweet this up, blog post about it, Digg it, whatever you have to do!!!
If you made it to the last show and had a great time PLEASE submit a review by clicking submit review on the right hand side HERE!
YOU GUYS ROCK!
Also, You can listen to the last Tweet-UP here
Online Tweet-UP Episode 2 Scheduled!!! SPREAD THE WORD!
The next Tweet-UP will be on August 7th at 9:00 PM EST. I have changed the start time to 9PM due to many EST listeners requests.
If you would like to pitch your Twitter app, or anything else Twitter your working on email me and I will make sure your part of the show. Once again don't miss out on meeting some new Twitter friends and hang out with the ones you already have!
Let's make this show HUGE!
The First Ever Online Tweet-UP A Success!
First and foremost I want to thank everyone that participated last night. You may have just jumped in the show for 5-10 minutes or stayed for the whole call I just want to say THANK YOU.
As I stated last night this all started around 4 days ago when I had come up with the idea. It was a small "dream" of sorts for me for this to be a hit. Last night my expectations were met 10 fold. With little notice we had an amazing turnout, and it seemed if someone had to leave another popped in. Everyone seemed to have some great discussions going on and had a good time.There was no set of discussion last night, and we really fed off the listeners in chat and callers. I am afraid if certain topic is set in the future it will lose it's purpose of being a general Tweet-UP which is a general meet & greet.
If you could not make it, or if you did and want to hear the show again you can listen to it here.
I would like to think that I will host another Tweet-UP in the future. Hopefully in two weeks. Before I make that decision I would really like some feedback. If you made it to the Tweet-UP please leave a comment about what you thought. All feedback is appreciated, as I want to know that people had a good time and I'm not just doing this for me.
Next I would like to say thanks to the following people and to suggest you follow them on Twitter. But first a BIG thanks to Albert over at eatsleeptweet.com who donated some shirts to give away last night!
@jeffisageek
@calebelston
@argon52
@danieljohnsonjr
@jeffr0
@ialbert
@tweettees
@boxtech
@mswallace
@matthewschick
@Phlegon
@studionashvegas
@rahsheen
@fotographic
@lenire
@johnatkinson
@drwordpress
@derek
@debdebtig
@marinamartin
@darlaf
@mandyvan
@deegospel
@theberrygirl
@pixelchic
@doctoranonymous
@KristaNeher
Thank you all so much!
Billy Fairchild (tw3nty3ight)
Twitterfeed + Tweetburner = Ability To Track Your Stories
What you may not know is there is a setting in Twitterfeed to where you can have all of your URL's shortened and used with Tweetburner. With this you can see how many clicks the link you submitted has recieved.
This is simple to set up when your setting up a new feed. In the drop box that state "Shorten your link through:" just choose Tweetburner and your done. You can also see this in the picture above.
Join The first ever Online Tweet-UP! Thursday, July 24th 9:30 EST
Last night I got to thinking about how many Tweetup's take place in the Twitter community. Now, many of our Twitter friends and followers are miles away from us and we may or may not actually get to meet them and break out of our 140 character discussion.
This is where the Online Tweet-UP is going to try and fill that gap. I am introducing Online Tweet-Up over at Talkshoe. You can find the show page here. Online Tweet-UP is a place where you and your Twitter friends will be able to call in and discuss things going on around Twitter or anything else you would like to chat about. I will do my best to get everyoine I can involved in the call ins. If you would like to recieve a personal invite or considered for instant unmuting email me tw3nty3ight@gmail.com. If your not comfortable with calling in, break out a discussion in the live chat.
OTU I think will be a great chance for you to hang out and enjoy your Twitter friends as well as meet new ones. Keep in mind that this is in the very early stages as I just came up with this idea. If we get a lot of people interested this could be a every other week ordeal or gathering so to speak. I am also planning to have afew special guests as well. Hopefully they can make it on such a short notice. Also note that you will have to register an account over at Talkshoe
Remember this is meant to be fun! The more the merrier so spread the word!!! See you there!
Thanks to all of you that make the Twitter community so awesome!
tw3nty3ight (Billy Fairchild)
Customize Your Twitter Background
What I did what just download his template and then customized it to my liking in Photoshop. You can see mine here.
BrightKite Adds New Profile Features
To add your services to your Brightkite profile:
- Go to Account Settings and click your Profile tab.
- Choose a service and follow the instructions on how to enter your username
- Click Add
- Choose another service to add
- When you have added the desired services click Save.
Summize Is No More
Why is this good? Well, Twitter never really had a good search platform. That's not the case now. Now, in the long term will this be a huge improvement to us Twitter users? That is yet to be seen. I myself hope that this leads to IM/Track features coming back. One can only hope.
BrightKite Is Making Things VERY Interesting
To be honest I could really think of one "set" reason. However, I think a few things need to become available yet for me. I know BrightKite has made a ton of new features available, but these are thew ones that will make it complete for me.
IM Support
I need this, I want this I HAVE to have it. With it being gone from Twitter it has made me realize how much I socially rely on this feature. I think if BK added this I am gone from Twitter. Well, not completely due to the fact I can have my BK entries posted to Twitter. This could be a win win. If I can get the notifications of a reply and @tw3nty3ight being mentioned I would be on it like a fly on... well you know the rest.
BlackBerry App
Yes I know it's in the works, however it's wouldn't be a must have for me if I had IM support. I would love to see an auto refreshing, and notification with a BB app.
In the end if IM support comes to BK that's where you will find me. I must give the guru's over at BrightKite some serious props, cause they have me excited!
Blackbird - The Newest Twitter Client For The Blackberry
I am liking Blackbird much more than TB for a few reasons. The main reason is for some reason it just seems easier to use. It also seems faster and on top of that my favorite feature is that you can seamlessly refresh replies to you from the replies page. With TB this was a painstaking process.
Now keep in mind Blackbird has no "eye candy". This I assume is the reason behind it being faster. In the end the speed and eas of use make up for the lack of graphics for me. I am still however waiting for one of these clients to implement an audible alert when I have a reply. So if the Blackbird developer reads this, that is the only thing I could want from this app.
Twitter, I Am Growing Tired Of Waiting
Nearly a month ago Twitter was rushed into ER and died on the operating table. After a few hours of work and a near death experience. Twitter was alive again, but far from well.
Since that fateful day we have been limited with our features that we have grown to take advantage of. Limited API, track, IM, and SMS seem to be the hardest felt.
You all know I am a huge supporter of Twitter and don't like people calling out Twitter rudely. However, I am growing tired. my tweets have taken a large hit since IM was disabled.
I think after over a month of issues there has been ample time to bring back all of Twitters features. I am starting to get frustrated....
Get TwitKit To Work On Firefox 3
I stumbled here and found a fix. Just follow these steps.
- Open about:config in the address bar.
- Right click on the list and create a boolean: extensions.checkCompatibility
- Set its value to false.
- Restart browser.
Bingo! Now TwitKit and your other extension should work fine!
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