The folks at Colour Lovers (we’ll excuse the U for now) have put together a really great Twitter theme designer that somehow saves directly back into your Twitter profile. I didn’t realize this was possible so perhaps they have a “deal” with Twitter? Perhaps Twitter should simply buy the app?
/via Evan Williams on Twitter.
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I hope by “excuse the U” you mean “I hope the rest of the world excuses our spelling laziness”! haha
Really impressive looking app, though. If I wasn’t in love with my bare bones theme, I’d definitely use this.
I can’t get behind using a U in color, favorite, etc. I don’t understand how it is supposed to be “correct” to spell it that way. It changes the way I say those words.
Here in the lands where history comes from, the ‘ou’ is AFAIK a French influence. And while I generally veer towards US spelling, I’ll go so far as to say that ‘ou’ is the correct pronounciation more than a simple ‘o’ is.
But then I’m Danish, so what do I know?
I wish I had a danish right now.
Hi Colin,
A user’s profile colour (I’m Australian so I spell it correctly, with a “u” ;-P) settings are exposed through the Twitter API (see http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Twitter-REST-API-Method%3A-account%C2%A0update_profile_colors), so I guess that’s what they’re using.
Cheers,
Drew
Oauth, man. Oauth.
http://oauth.net/
I know they are using OAuth but I didn’t realize that Twitter had exposed those features through the API (as Drew Robinson has pointed out).