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Re: New Features! Remember Me, Following, Retweets and More

cwalcott — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:40:09 -0000

Everything mentioned in this post is still in Tweetree. Or did you mean some other work?

Re: Read your blogs inside Tweetree

cwalcott — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:19:09 -0000

No "account" has been created. Putting any public Twitter username in
the URL, like http://tweetree.com/<username>, will display that user's
tweets, formatted and with links back to Twitter.com. This comes
directly from the Twitter API and is not hosted or changed by us in
any way. Twitter's TOS, at http://twitter.com/tos, not only allows
but encourages (their words) what we do, as long as there are links
back to twitter (which we have). Here is the exact text from their TOS:

"The Twitter service makes it possible to post images and text hosted
on Twitter to outside websites. This use is accepted (and even
encouraged!). However, pages on other websites which display data
hosted on Twitter.com must provide a link back to Twitter."

With that said, if you'd like, as a courtesy, we can prevent tweets
from being displayed specifically on your page.

Re: Read your blogs inside Tweetree

lunchinsuva — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:02:49 -0000

I'm not talking about opting out of the RSS integration ... I never asked you to create http://tweetree.com/lunchinsuva

I want to opt out of that ... actually, wait ... you should have waited for me to opt in.

You're not like Google Reader at all ... that's account and opt-in dependent. It's private, I can add and remove feeds, I can close my account. Any my stream is not exposed unless I publish it deliberately.

So, how about letting me close this unauthorised 'account' with you guys.

Re: Read your blogs inside Tweetree

cwalcott — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:39:07 -0000

Hi,

We don't strip ads out of the feeds. The only way we alter the content
is disabling Javascript, which is only done to prevent malicious code
from being run.

We specifically use RSS so that website owners have control over what
we show. What users see on Tweetree should be no different than what
they would see in any other feedreader. Is it possible the ads depend
on Javascript? If there's a bug on our side, we'd be happy to help
fix it.

In terms of opting out, that's kind of like asking to opt out of
Google Reader. The best way would be to simply remove or alter your
RSS feed.

Re: Performance Updates

Azlen — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:46:49 -0000

It worked the first time I tried, but then I went to my replies and was getting the original error. Then went back to the main page, and it then didn't work either.

Re: Performance Updates

Azlen — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:43:29 -0000

It was my work computer that I was having issues with, so I'll give it a try tomorrow. Thanks

Re: Performance Updates

cwalcott — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:07:11 -0000

Do you mind trying again? We just pushed out a fix.

Re: Tweetree Now Checks for New Tweets

cwalcott — Tue, 05 May 2009 10:05:19 -0000

Hi,

The refresh notices were down for a while last night, but they should be back now. Sorry about that!

Re: New Features! Remember Me, Following, Retweets and More

cwalcott — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:50:50 -0000

Thanks! We're actually working on adding DM support right now :).

Re: How You Can Add Thumbnails to Tweetree

tim — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:45:27 -0000

I don't think more options is always such a good thing. In this case, I would prefer using the FB method because it's already been done (circa 2006) and it's proven. Options aren't bad inherently, however, when you have too many they cease to be helpful.

There's a saying in Texas, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Re: How You Can Add Thumbnails to Tweetree

cwalcott — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:16:52 -0000

We should have more types of embedding coming very soon. Are there any particular sites or services that you'd like to see?

Re: How You Can Add Thumbnails to Tweetree

cwalcott — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:22:31 -0000

Thanks! This looks promising too. I'd love for Tweetree (and other sites) to be able to support multiple standards, such as oEmbed, this Facebook sharing standard, as well as the kind of mechanism Dave Winer has described. This gives site owners more options, which is always a good thing.

Re: Item-level permalinks, and FriendFeed account

cwalcott — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:17:31 -0000

Hmm, links that go to other sites should be opening in new windows. If you don't mind, could you let me know what kind of links aren't opening in new windows, and which browser you're using?

Thanks for using Tweetree!

Re: How You Can Add Thumbnails to Tweetree

cwalcott — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:06:24 -0000

Neat! Thanks for pointing me to oEmbed, I'm going to check it out.

Re: The space between Twitter and FriendFeed (Scripting News)

cwalcott — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:07:13 -0000

This post got me thinking that you could do a lot of what you're describing with a Twitter client. You could follow any links that come through Twitter, and for things like images, videos and music embed the content directly in the client, similar to Friendfeed. Other links could at least show the page's title and URL (after redirects).

Another important bit to Friendfeed is the way it nests conversations. I know with Twitter I always feel like I'm missing context when it comes to replies, and the only solution is to keep clicking those "in reply to" links. So another important part would be to show "in reply to" messages right above replies.

I've actually started working on this as a project called Tweetree, and an initial working release is up at tweetree.com. I think there's a lot of potential to create a rich, graphical interface to the Twitter backend, using the FF model you've described here.

Re: Boxee Invites

fredwilson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:52:34 -0000

Great feedback

We are going to talk about this with the company in 15 minutes!

I love the web

Re: Boxee Invites

cwalcott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:44:25 -0000

I understand the need to keep the user base controlled at the beginning, and a closed alpha/beta lets the company have more control over scaling. I think creating a Boxee signup page for AVC readers was a great solution, since it lets Boxee know which of the users are the early adopters that come from your blog.

I also get the sense that a big part of closed betas is the scarcity creating a marketing tool, which I find interesting. I remember with Seesmic, there was a time when it was still nominally "closed", but Loic would give an account to anyone who asked for one, and would even post invite codes in blog comments and Twitter. As a user it doesn't bother me, but I don't know if other people find it annoying.

Re: Boxee Invites

fredwilson — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:22:42 -0000

Good question. I've been asking the same thing. The software is not yet where we want it and where we can get it soon. So the company wants to keep the user base small and sophiticated right now

But I am starting to think that's not the right call

Thoughts?

Re: Boxee Invites

cwalcott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:36:35 -0000

I'm loving Boxee so far, but I'm wondering why not make it an open beta if all the invite requests are being filled?

Re: 5 Simple Ways To Keep Up With The Rails Community

cwalcott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:27:34 -0000

Thanks, glad you found it useful!

Re: How Apple Can Support True Background Applications on the iPhone

cwalcott — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:19:11 -0000

Yeah, I was thinking of a way to have only one application run in the background at once, since as you said users probably don't actually need too many simultaneously. But for multiple background processes I like your method a lot.

Re: Backups in Solaris using rsync

cwalcott — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:32:16 -0000

Sorry about that! Must have been a problem with our redesign. The code should be visible now.

Re: Ryan Twomey

Costa — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:38:00 -0000

Really cool app, unfortunately it sounds like people are saying it's been removed from the App Store :-/. Apparently it goes against the AT&T TOS.

Re: Ryan Twomey

rtwomey — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:51:29 -0000

haha, thanks. I'm using it too, and I'm impressed. It's a nice eye-candy way of viewing feeds, though it's not really meant for hardcore RSS addicts.

What I'm doing, actually, is pulling together lots of feeds that aren't in my regular newsreader and using snackr to display them. That way, whenever I glance over at it, I'm guaranteed to see something I haven't already read, and can pick out things I may not have seen otherwise.

Re: Ryan Twomey - A busy day...

rtwomey — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:41:38 -0000

Thanks. Luckily, the rain has been holding off. Hopefully it stays that way, otherwise it will be a miserable day.