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Twitter User Streams: Real-Time Is Back?

14 Apr 2010

At Twitter’s developer conference, Chirp, they announced a new (or old) feature that has caught my interest: User streams. This new API will allow developers to stream twitter activity to end-users in real-time. This was demonstrated at the conference using the web version of Twitter and TweetDeck. As activity occured in the web browser, TweetDeck [...]

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Tags: API, chirp, conference, developer, real-time, social networking, track, twitter, web2.0

FriendFeed Filters Are The Star Of The Beta

In: web2.0

7 Apr 2009

Yesterday, the team over at FriendFeed made a radical move to their popular website, friendfeed.com. They turned the website into a giant river of ever-flowing information. For those of us who are familiar with the term, “real-time web”, we saw this as a positive step towards it becoming a reality. I’ve already blogged about ways [...]

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Tags: beta, filters, friendfeed, howto, real-time, screencast, search, track, walkthrough

Twitter 2008: Get Used To It (Goodbye IM/Track)

In: geek

12 Oct 2008

Last month, I blogged my return to Twitter due to the fact that the Track feature was dead. I saw the responses Twitter gave Steve Gillmor at Bearhug camp and determined they were prolonging the obvious: Track is dead, and they’re not bringing it back. Yesterday, I learned that Twitter has officially gone on record [...]

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Tags: im, Microblogging, track, tweetdeck, twitter, twitterspy

The Reason Why I Returned to Twitter: Track is Dead

In: geek

16 Sep 2008

I’ve been away from Twitter for about 4 months as I’ve stated in previous posts. Many of you know my frustrations regarding Twitter’s smoke & mirrors routine when it comes to uptime and availability. Most of this angst was driven by my lust for Twitter’s absent Track feature. Last week at bearhug camp, the guys [...]

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Tags: Identi.ca, track, twitter

After 4 Months, Has Twitter Improved?

In: geek

10 Sep 2008

It’s still not common knowledge among my online friends that I left Twitter on June 06, 2008. It’s been about 4 months since I did, and it seems like a lot has changed. Twitter is receiving praise for their improved “uptime” over the past months. Some have gone on record to state this could be [...]