TwitterPing is something I put together for myself back when Twitter services were up and down a lot. I still find it pretty useful when it looks like Twitter is acting a bit slow or odd. It can give you a very clear picture of how quickly (or slowly!) Twitter is responding to third party [...]
Browsing Posts published in February, 2009
TwitterSearch will let you set a search term, and it will update every 60 seconds to let you know what is going on in the Twitter universe. You can simply put in a search word or term, or be a little more tricky. Try setting one of these as your search: “#hashtag” to track a [...]
BeTrendy is an interactive gadget that will keep you up to date with what is going on in the Twitter universe, right from your iGoogle home page. Who’s searching for what, and what are people Tweeting about? Move your cursor over BeTrendy to rotate the tags. Add BeTrendy to your iGoogle home page: or you [...]
Released tonight, 11:30pm February 8th to me, BeTwittered gets a new search function. Look under the newly named “More!” tab and click “Search” Search for @usernames, funny words, whatever you like. Have Fun, Robert
Sorry for the down-time. BeTwittered is back, again. I notified the folks at Twitter as soon as I diagnosed the problem on Friday, January the 30th. Being the second time this happened, it only took me a few minutes to diagnose and then notify Twitter. There were some unfortunate delays, but I must say that [...]
