Christopher Finke writes about software, woodworking, and other creative endeavors.

Category: Twitter

  • Keyring River: A new WordPress theme to complement Keyring Social Importers

    It’s no secret that I use Keyring and Keyring Social Importers to import my activity on third-party services into a WordPress blog. All of my Facebook posts and photos, Twitter updates, foursquare checkins, and Reddit comments and submissions are archived in a single location; this makes it simple to see a snapshot of my online…

  • TwitterBar is now HootBar

    In which I sell out a little bit.

  • TwitterBar 2.9 Available: Post to Multiple Twitter Accounts

    (But only your own. I’m not that good.)

  • Extending the Web, not just the browser, with Twitter Filter

    I don’t care that you’re the mayor of your bus stop.

  • TwitterBar 2.4, Now With 2% Longer Tweets

    is.gd, yes?

  • TwitterBar updated with OAuth, shorter URLs

    Update: TwitterBar was sold to HootSuite and renamed HootBar in March of 2011. TwitterBar for Chrome was discontinued in October of 2012. Everyone’s favorite tool for posting to Twitter from your Firefox address bar (TwitterBar) has been updated to version 2.0. Changes in this version include: URL shortening Long URLs are now shortened by http://is.gd/…

  • Retweeting in Python

    My friend Eliot has been running a retweet bot named @SanMo for some time that is designed to serve Twitter users in the Santa Monica, California area by allowing them to broadcast tweets to other Santa Monica-area users without explicitly friending them. He wrote up the full details of the service and the script behind…

  • Amazon to compete with Twitter?

    Noticed this morning that Amazon.com added a feature that puts them squarely in competition with Twitter: This is bad news for Twitter. Up until now, they’ve been the market leader in the “Popular websites that are unavailable” category, but with Amazon.com as competition, they’ll have a hard time keeping that position.

  • Twitter-splosion

    So my Twitter address gets posted in Jason’s UStream chat, and all of a sudden my inbox explodes: Names removed to protect the innocent.

  • Mahalo Share Goes to 11

    One of the latest things I’ve been working on at Mahalo is Mahalo Share. It’s a utility that automatically posts links that you want to share to 11 different services: del.icio.us, Facebook, Twitter, Jaiku, your Tumblr blog, Ma.gnolia, Faves, Pownce, Mahalo, StumbleUpon, and/or Google Bookmarks. All of this cross-posting is done behind the scenes using…

  • Mahalo Follow 3.0

    We just rolled out Mahalo Follow 3.0, and the big new feature this time around is the ability to cross-post any links you recommend to Mahalo via the Follow toolbar between Twitter, del.icio.us, and Ma.gnolia. Just add your account info (process shown below), and after recommending a link for a Mahalo search term, your link…

  • Scoble’s 10 “rules” of Twitter

    Robert Scoble’s 10 rules of Twitter (and how I break every one) reads more like “Let me talk about myself by making up ‘rules’ that I ‘break.’ I’m the bad boy of the Internet.”

  • Twitter: What *are* people doing?

    Twitter exists solely for people to answer the question “What are you doing?”, and its users have been answering that question thousands of times per day since it launched. In an effort to find out what exactly Twitter’s users are doing, I checked a sample of 500,000 tweets to see what the most common “-ing”…

  • Don’t pay for Pownce; I’m giving it away for free

    I just read that there are Pownce invites for sale on eBay (also covered here and here). Please don’t pay for something you can get for free from me. Also, please don’t pay for something that you’ll most definitely be disappointed with five minutes after you sign up. In my experience, there’s nothing that you…

  • Kevin Rose’s new project: Pownce

    Digg founder Kevin Rose’s “IM competitor” startup that was hyped on Digg two months ago has been introduced, and it appears to be a Twitter clone with support for posting files. It’s named Pownce, and it calls itself “a way to send messages, files, links, and events to your friends.” It’s invite-only right now (I’m…

  • Twits Like Me

    Everybody and their mother has written a Twitter-based app, but I haven’t seen any so far that try and help you find other Twitterers that you’d find interesting, so I made one. It’s called “Twits Like Me” – just enter your Twitter screenname in the search box, and the Twits Like Me search engine will…

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