Posts Tagged: twitter


30
May 09

5 Reasons Why I like DestroyTwitter more then TweetDeck

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This is the first of this kinda of topic, at least for me anyways. But I’m going to share with you 5 reasons why i like/think DestoryTwitter is better then TweetDeck.

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First reason and number 1 (at least for me), Desktop realestate. DestoryTwitter takes up less space on the screen because it uses a slightly smaller font, the tweeters avatars are smaller and there is no unneeded padding around the borders. See the picture to the right. 

Second and probably more important then the first, Memory usage. I’ve had DestoryTwitter open for at least the past 24 hours, or more, and its memory usage is barely above 50mb of memory usage. So far iv had TweetDeck open about half an hour, open a few windows did a couple things, and its already up to 100mb.

The third reason is the replies, Direct messages, groups and search tabs on DestoryTwitter are always active. You can easily swap from one to another, with just one click. In TweetDeck you’d have to open a new column and scroll over to it. I also assume that every time you open a new tab it uses up a API call. 

Number four is the ability to filter the home tab. I assume you could do this with groups on TweetDeck just fine but your home tab would still get swamped with tweets and possibly fill up memory. You can filter it to only include a set of users and keywords or exclude users and keywords. Very useful for filtering out any tweet. For example tweets that have the tag #spymaster?

Last and not least is my number five reason. In DestroyTwitter, when you click on a #tag link, it will pull up a search tab in the app. When i tried this in TweetDeck, it opened my browser and went to twitters search page.

For me looks are more importatnt to me then feartures. So just give it a try you might like it as much as i do.

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29
Mar 09

Some updates

Well this post is really just to send out some updates on a few particular topics.

First id like to share that there has been no update on the status of my computer. Friday was between 8 or 10 business days, depending on when you start the count. But i might contact them monday. As far as i know, is there is a back up of orders and they havent had the time to get to my purchase. You know it is tax season, so everyone wants a new computer.

The next is the fact that i finely got my twitter account back. So you can now find me there also. Here is my address “http://twitter.com/justgiz/“. I am also useing a plugin for wordpress to help me sych my blog and my twitter. So every post i make here will be link to on my twitter page. There will also be a widget here showing my recent “tweets”. There are a few other features of this plugin, but i dont think ill use em just yet. Mainly the digets option. IT will be kool. Once a week (or a day if i wanted to) a post will be made here about about the tweets iv made.

The last thing im gonna share is another plugin i have running. It give my blog a mobile theme for people visiting from a mobile device. Its realy fansy lookin theme too. If you want to check it out, visit the site on a mobile device, or click here to force showing it. To get back either click the link at the bottom of the mobile theme page or delete the cookie named “cf_mobile”.


15
Mar 09

Stupid Twitter

OK so several months ago, when i had just heard about twitter, i thought id go ahead and sign up. While doing so started to think that if people wanted to know whats going on in my life they can just read my blog. I didn’t feel like it would be that useful, and would just be another site id have to keep updated and stuff so i decided to delete it.

Well now i feel like i wanna try it out, and this time keep the account. Well seems that when you delete an account on twitter, it isn’t actually deleted. The email and username is still held so no one can sign up with em. The main problem is that i cant restore my account. So im pretty much shit out of luck unless i use a different email and username. I’v done the automatic account restoration but i think my acount was deleted before 12/1/08 so it needs to be restored “manualy”.

So now im thinking, is it really worth it to even use twitter in the first place. Will i even get followers? I mean come on i only have what 8 comments on my blog. Two of witch are mine. I could post more short “twitter like” posts here, or even make a “twitter” category or something. I dont know.