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twitter announces Location API

thilo — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:16:12 +0000

twitter has just announced to add Location to their API. That’s big news as you can add your location to any tweet e.g. when you’re visiting a concert or from an interesting place you’re visiting on vacation. Sure, using twibble you can do all this already. Check out this geocoded picture or this geocoded video. In both cases twibble added the GPS coordinates to the tweet (watch the map on the right). In twibble mobile you can open a map to watch the location of your followers (below the Location submenu).

We are very excited on this since the location features already available in twibble will be even more useful in the future!

twitter is down

thilo — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:24:58 +0000

as you’ve probably noticed twibble doesn’t receive any tweets from twitter right now. That’s due to a DoS attack against the twitter servers. Check the twitter status page for updates.
update: twitter seems to be back to normal.

twibble mobile 0.9.11

thilo — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:45:10 +0000

now available for download! It has some bug fixes and a slightly modified menu to upload photos to twitpic or Mobypicture. Check it out from the mobile site!

If you experience any connection errors pls enter https://twitter.com in Options->Server API root. Blackberry users at least need OS 4.5 or greater.

twibble mobile 0.9.8

thilo — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 18:12:43 +0000

Another beta of twibble mobile for J2ME enabled phones is available! Despite several bug fixes the new version let’s you to follow user timelines and hashtags (via twitter search). Check out the new menu item ‘open in browser’. And (again) the new version is much faster than before. It fetches tweets, replies and direct messages almost instantly (given a fast network connection and fast twitter response times). And the app is still just about 95 kByte in size!
By default, the new version accesses twitter via http. If you want a secure connection enter https://twitter.com in the ‘Server api root’ field under Options. To try the new version navigate to http://m.twibble.de using your phone browser and follow the installation procedure.
Update: Version 0.9.8 fixes the ‘Connection not Writable’ error on some Blackberry devices and tweet times not updating properly when they move down the tweet list.

twibble mobile 0.9.5

thilo — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:20:11 +0000

thanks to all twibble mobile testers we’ve got a new version available. Despite a couple of bug fixes it allows to follow all links in the browser (not just the first one). There is also a new option to specify to auto scroll the tweet list when new messages arrive. Some other features are described in this post. Point your phone browser to http://m.twibble.de and download the latest beta.
A note to SonyEricsson users: Most SE phones don’t seem to accept twitter’s ssl certificate. There are 2 ways to get around the prob: Either you can switch off SSL by entering “http://twitter.com” in server api root or you can try to install a certificate as described by moeffju and Martin Campbell here. Thx for the hints, guys!

new twibble mobile on the horizon

thilo — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:30:30 +0000

If you are looking for a replacement of twibble mobile this is for you: The new twibble mobile! The upcoming release will have loads of new features including separate timelines for tweets, replies, and direct messages, profile pics, support for Mobypicture, good looking themes, and a better user expirience. Here are some screenshots. Stay tuned!

new twibble desktop for testing

thilo — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:42:38 +0000

After one day the first Micro Blogging Conference #mbc09 in Hamburg has already exeeded all my expectations. Cem Basman and his team did a phantastic job to get it up and running!
If you are following @twibble on twitter.com or identi.ca you already know there’s a new twibble desktop available for testing. I presented it at #mbc09 today.
For the impatient this is how to play with it:

install Adobe AIR 1.5.
to be safe uninstall any old versions of twibble desktop
Grab the test version of new twibble desktop here
If twibble won’t start properly (e.g. the spinner doesn’t disappear) delete the twibble settings (on Windows below your “Application Data” folder, on Mac below “Library/Preferences”) and start over.

Things you could try:

Add as many accounts as you want for twitter.com or identi.ca. All tweets, dents, replies and direct messages will be displayed in one list
Select your favorite color scheme
Drag and Drop URIs into the message field
Click on the photo icon and drag a photo on the canvas. To send the pic go back to the message field and press return
enter a search query and press return. Search queries will be repeated every 5 min. You can open as many search windows as you like and construct complex queries following the search api syntax. That way you can follow subjects on twitter very easily
click on the filter icon above the tweets

And last but not least select a notification rule (Settings/GUI) and see what happens! Thanks again, André!
Remember, that’s a test version. Magic things may happen As always, feedback is very much appreciated!

twibble at MBC ’09

thilo — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:55:58 +0000

The first Microblogging Conference in Europe mbc09 will take place in Hamburg, Germany on 23rd and 24th in January 2009. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Version 0.8.6 of twibble mobile

thilo — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:43:37 +0000

Version 0.8.6 of twibble mobile allows you to define text templates you can easily add to a tweet without re-typing. This could be tags (“#web20expoberlin”, “#current”), Locations (“L:San Francisco:”) or any other phrases you use often (“Good Morning Tweethearts, you Princes of Twitter, you Kings of the Web!!!” by courtesy of @PickiHH Should save you a lot of typing on your little tiny phone keyboard.
It also fixes some bugs most notably twibble shouldn’t steal focus any more when running in the background. The joystick left/right buttons are now assigned to page up/down and [8] or [h] puts twibble in background.

twibble mobile with notifications

thilo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:59:53 +0000

The the latest twibble mobile vibrates if new tweets arrive. Yeah! Fortunately you can also switch it off And Version 0.8.5 features the first user generated theme: @watfordgap provided a true master piece, afaik. Thank you! And last but not least it has some changes which should make twibble more useful on Blackberry devices. Read on here!