Tweet Crunch

Tweetie: The new Twitter app for the iPhone [Preview]

Posted on 15. Nov, 2008 by John.

Earlier on this week I got the opportunity to road test a new Twitter app for the iPhone/iPod touch. Tweetie was developed by a company called atebits and was submitted to the app store pending approval on the 11th of November so it should be out very soon, in the mean time I thought I [...]

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Tweetsville the iPhone app with search [Preview]

Posted on 12. Oct, 2008 by John.

Tweetsville is the latest in the long line of Twitter applications to emerge for the iPhone. The application has yet to be released/approved in the iTunes store but from the feature list that has been given will stand out for one reason, it is the only application that has been released so far that has [...]

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Twitter Announcement: IM is not coming back soon

Posted on 10. Oct, 2008 by John.

Twitter have finally come out and responded on the Status blog about Instant Messenger support or the lack of, this is what they had to say;
In October 2006, just three months after Twitter launched publicly, we added IM support—i.e., the ability to get and send tweets via XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk. I was a big fan of [...]

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Twittfriends asks how are you connected?

Posted on 06. Oct, 2008 by John.

twittfriends is a new site with the question, how are you connected?. The site grew out of an interest of the Twitter network and in particular how we are connected with our Twitter buddies, which friends we have in common and would you have friends that I would like to follow as well.

The site has [...]

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The Countdown has begun to the billionth tweet

Posted on 01. Oct, 2008 by John.

It’s been a rocky road for Twitter since it’s conception, the fail whales, the missing followers, api struggles and spammers not to mention the suitors to it’s thrown such as Pownce, Jaiku, friendfeed, identi.ca etc.. having all this thrown in it’s path it’s still going from strength to strength and to celebrate the coming of [...]

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Twitter and it’s friends invade the debate

Posted on 26. Sep, 2008 by John.

You may have noticed that there is quite a large debate going on across the pond in America at the moment, it’s Obama vs McCain and via the gift of Twitter and friends everyone is invited to take part. Twitter announced on it’s blog today that it’s created a special site that puts the election [...]

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Stocktwits Gets Angel Funding

Posted on 25. Sep, 2008 by John.

StockTwits, the service we reported a while back that aggregates the stocks people are talking about on Twitter have raised an unspecified angel round of funding from various sources including New York based Betaworks (also an investor of Twitter itself by virtue of the shares it received when Twitter acquired Summize) as well as individuals [...]

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Follow a conversation with Tweader

Posted on 19. Sep, 2008 by John.

Tweader is a new site that will thread conversations that you have with your friends or you just want to track conversations. Today @TVNewsier were doing an interview (or “Twinterview”) today with the recently talked about CNN Twitter guy Rick Sanchez, who debuted his own Twitter channel, answered questions posed by the TVN chaps in [...]

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New tactic for the Twitter spammers

Posted on 18. Sep, 2008 by John.

One of the easiest ways to spot Twitter Spammers and Fakers was either by the number of posts they have on the page or by the follower, following ratio.
Not any more, they must have seen this and what they are doing now is by using twitterfeed they are subscribing to a lot of RSS feeds, [...]

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ididwork gets new features to Yammer about

Posted on 14. Sep, 2008 by John.

A lot of the blogosphere has been a buzz about the TC50 winner Yammer, the Twitter-style service for the office. And Whilst Yammer launched without many additional “stand out” features to separate it from being just a Twitter Clone behind closed doors, a site we reported about a while back called ididwork has been busy [...]

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