32Hours » twitter http://32hours.com My journey into the software development world. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:46:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TwitterSearch: Track Twitter People or Topics http://32hours.com/2009/02/21/twittersearch-track-twitter-people-or-topics/ http://32hours.com/2009/02/21/twittersearch-track-twitter-people-or-topics/#comments Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:17:08 +0000 Robert http://www.32hours.com/?p=136 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 topic of interest. I like to follow #ubuntu to see the latest topics on my favorite Linux distro. (NOTE: this now works in “search” and “locked_search” modes mentioned below)
  • “@username”  to follow all mentions of someone. You could see what people are saying to @ev, or about him!
  • “to:username”  You can see what people are saying ONLY to a specific person.
  • “from:username”  You can track what a specific person is saying.

My favorite: Just enter a username without the “@” You’ll get to see the combo of what someone says, what is being said to them, and anything anyone says about them.


Add to Google
Add it to iGoogle.

The web page is at http://betwittered.com/twittersearch

Just like everything else I put up here, feel free to embed it anywhere you like.

Customizing TwitterSearch to put in a web page or blog

Change the default search to fit your site: Just add “search=searchTerm” to the URL. For example: http://betwittered.com/twittersearch?search=from:metarobert Note that I used a slightly advanced search of “from:metarobert” If you want to get fancy, you’ll need to know how to URL encode things like spaces and special characters.

Lock the search term:  By adding the option “locked_search”  you can now set TwitterSearch to lock in to a specific search.  With this set, the text area and button will be hidden and the search will always be set to your prference.  This is perfect for using Twittersearch to display a site specific search as a gadget on your web site.  Adding it is as simple as using an URL like :

http://betwittered.com/twittersearch?locked_search=from:metarobert

If you are wanting to embed this in your own site, here is how I did it in this page:


<iframe
    src='http://betwittered.com/twittersearch'
    style='
        height:300px;
        width:400px;
        border:0px;
        margin-left:auto;
        margin-right:auto;'
>
</iframe>

To use the “search” or “locked_search” options, just change the ‘src=’ parameter as described above.

Robert

]]> http://32hours.com/2009/02/21/twittersearch-track-twitter-people-or-topics/feed/ 7 BeTwittered Gets Tabs For Replies, Favorites, and Direct Msgs http://32hours.com/2008/07/24/betwittered-gets-tabs-for-replies-favorites-and-direct-msgs/ http://32hours.com/2008/07/24/betwittered-gets-tabs-for-replies-favorites-and-direct-msgs/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:15:54 +0000 Robert http://www.32hours.com/?p=24 How did I forget to post about this?  I’m a bit of a flaky geek sometimes.  BeTwittered features now include tabs for viewing replies, your favorites, and direct messages to you.  Admittedly, the tabs are rudimentary right now, but they work.  Sometimes I chose to release features and do the “prettying up” incrementally.  I favor getting features out over application beauty.  There are still a couple of possible additions coming sometime soon…

]]> http://32hours.com/2008/07/24/betwittered-gets-tabs-for-replies-favorites-and-direct-msgs/feed/ 9 BeTwittered Has New Features. Finally! http://32hours.com/2008/07/07/betwittered-has-new-features-finally/ http://32hours.com/2008/07/07/betwittered-has-new-features-finally/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:49:08 +0000 Robert http://www.32hours.com/?p=23 It’s been a long time coming, and I’ve gotten plenty of email requesting the new features that have finally made their way into BeTwittered.  Most notable are the reply and direct message functions.  The interface also got a bit of an upgrade with nice icons/buttons, and now by clicking the “Show More” button on a tweet, you can get extended info about the sender and the tweet.  The “show more” button, by the way, is how you also get to the reply and direct message buttons.

Next on my plate?  I’m looking to add a “replies” tab so you can see who has sent you a reply.  Also, I will be adding a “back” button so you can page through your tweet history.  This has to wait until Twitter turns this feature back on.  Right now, it’s just not available to us.

]]> http://32hours.com/2008/07/07/betwittered-has-new-features-finally/feed/ 15 Rough Week for BeTwittered And Twitter http://32hours.com/2008/05/24/rough-week-for-betwittered-and-twitter/ http://32hours.com/2008/05/24/rough-week-for-betwittered-and-twitter/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 13:51:14 +0000 Robert http://www.32hours.com/?p=21 First off, I want to apologize for the blank gadgets, slow responses, and general bad week.  Sorry! I moved BeTwittered to a faster server just in time for Twitter to start having it’s own bad week of daily outages. I’ve been busy tuning the new server and BeTwittered in my free time hoping to alleviate some of the problems caused by the twitter outages and slowness (blank gadget screens, for example) My apologies for the poor error handling. I’ll be working on that over the next few days. I’ve added a couple new feature requests to my list of “hopefuls” including timezones, resizing, etc. Happy twittering! Robert

]]> http://32hours.com/2008/05/24/rough-week-for-betwittered-and-twitter/feed/ 11 New BeTwittered Feature Requests? http://32hours.com/2008/04/17/new-betwittered-feature-requests/ http://32hours.com/2008/04/17/new-betwittered-feature-requests/#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:26:15 +0000 Robert http://www.32hours.com/2008/04/17/new-betwittered-feature-requests/ Scott (http://twitter.com/nintender) and I are working on the next update of BeTwittered.  A couple of the features we’re working on are allowing multiple account logons, and context menus that will include things like “reply” and “direct message” selections.  Is there anything that you’ve been wishing BeTwittered could do?  Something we could create and help to stop your pain?  We have a couple of our own wishes, but let us know what yours are.  Leave a comment if you think you have the bestest idea ever, or even just little, teency, itty-bitty wish.  We love to hear from you all.

]]> http://32hours.com/2008/04/17/new-betwittered-feature-requests/feed/ 19 PreBeTwittered Nears Completion http://32hours.com/2008/03/15/prebetwittered-nears-completion/ http://32hours.com/2008/03/15/prebetwittered-nears-completion/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:22:51 +0000 Robert http://www.32hours.com/2008/03/15/prebetwittered-nears-completion/ The last change before testing and deployment is now in the works.  It should be done by tomorrow, March 13.  That would mean that Monday, March 14th, BeTwittered would see another update.  It may be the last before some more significant changes.  I have some ideas that I want to incorporate that would mean a short-term freeze on fixes and tweaks so that the focus can go into an upgrade.

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]]> http://32hours.com/2008/02/23/betwittered-gets-a-new-feature-and-some-nice-changes/feed/ 2 New Features Added to BeTwittered http://32hours.com/2008/02/01/new-features-added-to-betwittered/ http://32hours.com/2008/02/01/new-features-added-to-betwittered/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:33:39 +0000 Robert http://www.32hours.com/2008/02/01/new-features-added-to-betwittered/ Last night, some updates went into the released version of BeTwittered.  Two features are added.  The first is that replies and any other “@username” reference is now highlighted, and clickable.  Clicking an @username reference will now take you directly to that persons Twitter home page.  Also, there is now a settings page.  Click on settings, and you’ll get, currently, two options:  You can choose to logout of twitter, and you can choose to turn off user pictures in the timeline.  

Related news: It appears that google may have fixed an issue they were having with their gadget directory.  Since last night, BeTwittered and “Amazon Top 10 Geek/Tech Books” are showing up again.  This means you can use “add stuff” on your Google homepage to get these gadgets again (and a whole lot of others that were also missing) 

]]> http://32hours.com/2008/02/01/new-features-added-to-betwittered/feed/ 12 Twitter iGoogle Gadget – Progress http://32hours.com/2008/01/05/twitter-igoogle-gadget-progress/ http://32hours.com/2008/01/05/twitter-igoogle-gadget-progress/#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:40:01 +0000 Robert http://www.32hours.com/2008/01/05/twitter-igoogle-gadget-progress/ I am really happy with my progress with the Google Gadget / Widget I’ve put together for Twitter. Today I decided to rewrite the app, incorporating some of the best pieces. What I did was re-implement the Twitter “friends time-line” in AJAX and modularize as Twitter Gadget!much as I could so that it would be a better user experience. Sorry…in English: I made it work better when new “tweets” show up, and made it easier for me to fix the app, and add features. If have a Google account and you’d like to check it out, click HERE!->Twitter iGoogle Gadget (32hours.com) UPDATE(06Jan08, 6:45am): I’ve fixed a bug for IE users. It now works in IE again. Also, working on a login page bug (please bear with the temporary ugliness!)

]]> http://32hours.com/2008/01/05/twitter-igoogle-gadget-progress/feed/ 4 My Second Google Gadget – Twitter iGoogle Gadget http://32hours.com/2008/01/01/my-second-google-gadget-twitter-igoogle-gadget/ http://32hours.com/2008/01/01/my-second-google-gadget-twitter-igoogle-gadget/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:20:39 +0000 Robert http://www.32hours.com/2008/01/01/my-second-google-gadget-twitter-igoogle-gadget/ I’ve created another Google gadget for the iGoogle homepage.  This one is for Twitter.  Twitter is an interesting service, follow the link and check it out!  I was not satisfied with any of the Twitter gadgets already on google, and there weren’t many.  Of the few that were there, a good number of them did not even work for me, and the others didn’t allow for you to send updates to Twitter.  Twitter iGoogle Gadget is now functional enough that I am using it.  I will be making it look better, and adding features.  My goal is to keep it usable as a gadget, and as a mobile Twitter client (I’m not terribly satisfied with Twitters own mobile version)  No screeshot yet, but you can check it out by clicking the google link below:

Add Twitter iGoogle Gadget

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