Hi!
Today we updated TwinterFace so it uses the new core, it has an even better python backend than we where testing last week. We’ve sent out some more invites and we will send out more in the next few days, depending of what little glitches you guys come up with.
What’s changed:
- The core is new, tweets are now being cached and thus the system is a lot faster.
- There is a new action window, this makes it easier to reply, retweet, DM or in a next update, forward tweets. (we also have enough space to build scheduled tweets and multitweets in).
- You can now delete your own posts and DM’s.
- You can now favorite and unfavorite posts.
What do we have in the planning:
- scheduled tweets
- integrated pictureservice
- groups
- forwarding
- and lots of other fun stuff that’s possible due to the new core, but more on that later.
If you want to join the (private) beta testers, please follow @twinterface_ and leave a tweet, every now and then we will post invite keys.
If you are one of the lucky beta testers and find a glitch, bug, special unintended feature, please let us know on twitter or send us an email.
A few weeks ago I’ve told you all that we built a new core and that it was running fine in the background. Well it still is. It’s awesome and makes lots of new stuff possible. What does it do? Too much for one blogpost, but the main thing is, we now cache tweets, this so the interface is going to be smoother, faster and it has lots of other advantages.
Last few weeks Max and I have been working on the frontend to make that work with the new backend, that doesn’t completely work yet, but we are getting along.
There where two big javascript errors, both caused by a new better javascript engine, but since it had to show a lot of tweets, we had to make some adjustments to make sure your browsers wouldn’t crash. One of them is completely fixed, the other one caused some interface trouble, so will be dealt with later today.
The most important change for you is that you now won’t get a tweet update window on reply, but you get a action window where you can reply, retweet, direct message and in a few weeks, forward,… :-) The last is a very important to us, so it’s not being implemented in the next update. But along with new follower options it’s going to be ready in a few weeks.
Thanks for all your positive reactions and for your patience.
Harold
Small extra feature, we implemented the http://shortr.me url-trimming service. After typing an url the url will be trimmed automatically. Stats of the trimmed urls will be available later.
Have fun!
Yesterday we pushed an update where you can change the column’s content, you can now choose different types:
- search
- my tweets
- friends stream
- @mentions
- direct messages
As extra you can now change the searchterm to whatever you want, it’s filtered so you won’t see your own tweets, and your mentions.
We also fixed some minor css bugs and a preferences bug.
The cookie system is a bit better now, but we don’t have a durable solution yet, if you use one browser and/or computer you will stay logged in. We’re working on a better solution.
If you find a bug, please tweet it, or send it to bugs@twinterface.com
We’re almost ready with the implementation of shortr.me, in a real cool intuitive way, If that is what you like we can implement other trimmers. Now the question, which trimmers do you use and do you want us to add? there are quite a lot of them, but not all of them feature an API.
- shortr.me
- tinyurl
- shor.ter.net
- kots.nu
- shorturl.com
- and loads more
And we found a cool way to display pictures from the three known picture sites:
- twitpic
- mobypic
- tweetphoto
We also want to implement the uploading of pictures to theses services, there’s only one problem, all of these services require the password and username to be sent in cleartext, and since we don’t store the username’s & passwords (but use Twitter’s OAuth API) that’s going to be tricky.
So the plan is, we first implement both the url-trimmer, and the displaying of the pictures, and as soon as one of these three picture services implements OAuth, we will implement that. So If you want to post pictures with TwinterFace, make sure you ask these services for it on their support sites. :-)
Just updated the whole site, on some pages the entire interface changed, on other pages only small parts changed.
New features:
- login by cookie (so, unless you log out, you don’t have to login anymore).
- remove extra users from a twitteraccount (user keeps account).
- new frontpage.
Bugs fixed:
- what-are-you-doing popup is now visible on small screens.
- lots of small css & javascript issues.
Almost finished:
- custom searches
- multitweet (one message to multiple twitter accounts at once)
Tomorrow we will send out a new batch of invites, If you want one don’t be affraid to ask. If you find bugs or have feature requests, please tweet to @twinterface_
Hello tweeps,
We just started this blog to keep you all posted with the updates we’re doing on twinterface, and especially the updates that won’t fit in 140 characters.
First of all, We are really happy that a lot of beta testers are testing TwinterFace, we’re not getting a lot of feedback, so that’s a good sign.
Later today I will post something about all the fun stuff that’s just around the corner.
Harold
