BeTwittered has gotten a few changes today. Most notable are a larger text area to type in your messages, and the counter to let you know when you’ve talked too much; well, really just a counter so you can tell when you are nearing the 140 character tweet limit. There are also a few behind the scene bug-fixes and changes. I now have a partner in crime, so BeTwittered is now benefiting from his big brain. …and, some new ideas are brewing. I think the next changes will be a bit more substantial…
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.
This morning, a new version of BeTwittered went live. Because it’s web based the update is automatic, so if you already use BeTwittered, you’ll just get the updates. For most people, the obvious change will be the addition of time-stamps. If you don’t like having them, you can turn them off in the “settings” – FYI – Pictures can be turned off, too. Now, someone (I won’t mention a name, but it rhymes with “Steve”) noted that at some screen resolutions, BeTwittered didn’t “wrap” well, so made it hard to read Tweets without having to scroll around the screen. I checked it out, and it was truly a pain, and ugly. I’ve fixed the text area so it resizes, so BeTwittered should now look a LOT better for anyone that had this issue before. Happy Tweeting.
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)
I’ve just posted a version of BeTwittered that you can use from your phone or other mobile device. To have a look, please go to http://32hours.com/betwittered, or go directly to the BeTwittered information page. I’m surprised at how quickly the mobile version came together.
Of course, the BeTwittered Google homepage gadget is still improving. I’ve done some more clean up so hopefully there are several fewer “bugs” !
You can also add BeTwittered to you Google homepage by clicking this button: 
I’ve added some new error checking to keep from displaying ugly messages when the Twitter servers are not responding correctly, and added a logout button. There are some other changes, some minor cosmetics, and some cleanup that is invisible. Please, check it out! -> Add it to your iGoogle page
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 
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!)
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:
Interesting. I made it to the Google gadget listings. I didn’t get a notification message from Google. Maybe it’s been there as soon as I saved the program to their hosting server? No matter – here’s a link to add my gadget to your iGoogle home page!
Still in early development, but this is a little less raw than the link from the last post:
