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Dave Winer recorded a short podcast in response to Marco’s argument about whether or not we should trust Twitter. He says: Apple screwed their developers too. It happened more than once. Good to listen to the other side of this. We’ll see how it plays out over time.

Marco says no way. Even though the WSJ is reporting that Twitter is going to try to appeal to developers this week at a conference… he writes: Twitter will never, and should never, have any credibility with developers again. Enjoy it while it lasts, but be ready for it to disappear at any moment. I’m…

Can you hear it? I can. Read this, as reported on the very great GigaOm: Twitter’s timeline is organized in reverse chronological order… but this “isn’t the most relevant experience for a user,” Noto said. Timely tweets can get buried at the bottom of the feed if the user doesn’t have the app open, for…

I said that this morning to Kyle. That the golden age of Twitter is over. I couldn’t think of a more eloquent way to put it. The Twitter we fell in love with is actually gone already. It no longer exists at all. In fact, it is tough to even see the remnants of that Twitter…

Jason Del Ray & Mike Isaac, reporting for re/code, say Twitter and Stripe are near a deal to allow Twitter to accept credit cards in some fashion. I think they hit the nail on the head with their last paragraph: Or another likely scenario: Twitter could integrate Stripe’s payment processing into its “Cards” technology, allowing…

In February of this year I completely cleared out the accounts I follow on Twitter, moved those I wanted to continue following into a bunch of lists, and started over. Why? Because I wanted new perspectives. Today, I’m doing it again. So if you see me follow you or unfollow you it is more than…

Jim Ray reviews Twitter #music: Tellingly, you can’t get to a musician’s tweets from within the app to decide whether you want to follow them based on the content of their stream, you’re just supposed to follow all of your favorite musicians and be in awe of their celebrity, I guess. Yesterday I tweeted that while Twitter #music looked…

My good friend Gary Vaynerchuk chose your’s truly as #4 of 19 people he thinks should be followed on Twitter. He says of me:  his new project is something that I think has the real chance of blowing up in 2014. Keep an eye on him. I think he’s a great follow and someone who’s…

Matthew Panzarino: As photos and other media become a bigger part of Twitter’s strategy in the future, it can’t have this kind of thing completely at the mercy of a service owned by a competitor. Instagram’s being able to simply yank Twitter’s ability to embed images inline on their site and apps is far too…

Instagram: "It can be cumbersome sharing a photo to Twitter and @mentioning someone whose Twitter username is different from their Instagram username. Today, we’ve rolled out a change that will make sharing to Twitter more seamless." Good feature, I suppose. It is an odd problem.

Instagram: "It can be cumbersome sharing a photo to Twitter and @mentioning someone whose Twitter username is different from their Instagram username. Today, we’ve rolled out a change that will make sharing to Twitter more seamless." Good feature, I suppose. It is an odd problem.

Instagram: "It can be cumbersome sharing a photo to Twitter and @mentioning someone whose Twitter username is different from their Instagram username. Today, we’ve rolled out a change that will make sharing to Twitter more seamless." Good feature, I suppose. It is an odd problem.

Instagram: "It can be cumbersome sharing a photo to Twitter and @mentioning someone whose Twitter username is different from their Instagram username. Today, we’ve rolled out a change that will make sharing to Twitter more seamless." Good feature, I suppose. It is an odd problem.

Instagram: "It can be cumbersome sharing a photo to Twitter and @mentioning someone whose Twitter username is different from their Instagram username. Today, we’ve rolled out a change that will make sharing to Twitter more seamless." Good feature, I suppose. It is an odd problem.

Instagram: "It can be cumbersome sharing a photo to Twitter and @mentioning someone whose Twitter username is different from their Instagram username. Today, we’ve rolled out a change that will make sharing to Twitter more seamless." Good feature, I suppose. It is an odd problem.

Instagram: "It can be cumbersome sharing a photo to Twitter and @mentioning someone whose Twitter username is different from their Instagram username. Today, we’ve rolled out a change that will make sharing to Twitter more seamless." Good feature, I suppose. It is an odd problem.

Me, in July 2009: So that is why I use Twitter’s favorite feature to help me save links for reading later. For at least four years I’ve been subscribed to the RSS feed for my favorites on Twitter. That RSS feed is now gone. One of the features I found most valuable on Twitter is…

Paul Haddad about the new user token limit for third-party clients on Twitter: "For iOS, there’s no danger of hitting that anytime soon,” he said “For Mac, it’s really hard to tell. It’s definitely a lower limit, but then there’s going to be fewer users as well. We’ve never really been keeping track of user tokens…

The way I use lists on Twitter is pretty straight forward. I hand-curate about a dozen lists into categories of things I’m interested in. Over the years I’ve seen people complain that they don’t want to do the heavy-lifting of managing these Lists. But I’ve found that lists is a feature that has kept Twitter…

Jason Kottke, today: It’s funny that so many of the things that make Twitter compelling weren’t actually invented by Twitter but by the users and developers. It is true. Linking, @replies, #hashtags, photo sharing, location sharing, and much much more all came from the community and the developers that built cool tools ontop of Twitter.…

Dalton Caldwell on what Twitter could have been: Nowadays, every time Iget a K-Mart ad in my feed, or see wonky behavior in the official clients, or see Twitter drop another bomb on their developer ecosystem, I think back and wish the pro-API guys won that internal battle. From an outsider’s perspective it is really…

Jason Kottke recently redesigned his site. His analysis is interesting to read for anyone who has done the same for their site. Here is what he said on attempting to make his site’s Twitter stream a little more engaging. One of the small changes I made was to stop using post titles for posting to…

In an effort to unify the experience across multiple devices and platforms Twitter has released updates of Twitter for iPhone and the Mac version of TweetDeck. I think it is a good thing for the official applications to all feel and work very much the same. However, for obvious reasons long-time users of Twitter may…

From Tweetie 1 to Twitter 4 Jeremy Stanley gives us the history of Twitter for iPhone and some screenshots. /via Shawn Blanc.

Remember when I said this yesterday? "What would happen if, say, tomorrow Twitter decided that all Twitter clients (third-party and official) had to show some fairly obtrusive ads or you’d need to pay a few dollars per month to use the service?" It turns out Twitter did change the next day. (I knew nothing of…

Twitter Viewer is a simple service by Aaron Swartz that allows you to link to an entire conversation on Twitter. Twitter should offer this. /via John "I cut in line once" Gruber.

Speaking of free services making major changes; Twitter has announced a major redesign that unifies all of their UIs.

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] My handy dandy little script that makes it easy to parse an RSS feed and send links to Twitter using PHP just got a nice little update. It now supports OAuth and has been cleaned up quite a bit. Oh, version 1.0 is still available.

A feature that I’ve wanted from Twitter ever since I ditched Brightkite in April 2009 has finally been released – @mention notifications. Huzzah. Side note: Remember Brightkite? Oh what could have been. /via Eric Brophy.

OK, maybe not the world. But, this is simply a friendly housekeeping / reminder post to let you know how easy it is to keep up with the latest posts from this here site. In order of my recommendation: The RSS feed. – This gives you everything. Notes, links, photos, videos, etc. I suggest Google…

So, you’re new to Twitter. Welcome! You’re about to tweet your first tweet – but there are some things you need to know first. Some rules to live by if you will. @cdevroe and @elizard, Twitter experts with over 20,000 tweets between them, have created the following rules which are inarguably true and beyond contestation.…

Twitter has rolled out its advertising platform called Promoted Tweets. It takes actual tweets from participating brands and pushes them onto the top of relevant search results and shoves them into the stream within third party applications. Inclusion of this ad system into third party applications is not mandatory but is certainly welcomed by developers…

The PHP5 script that I use to send my mobile photos to Twitter that was bounced back and forth a few times back in December has now been officially moved to GitHub. After searching on GitHub for scripts that did the same thing I didn’t come up with much. Hopefully this both fills that void…

UPDATE: I only use @cdevroe now. In addition to the support for Realtime RSS that I’ve added recently I’ve also now created a Twitter account for First initial, last name. Although the username @cdevroecom is rather disappointing I could not figure out any combination of First initial, last name that was available so we’ll all…

As you’ve probably read Twitter has acquired Mixer Labs who runs GeoAPI, an API for all things location, and plans to integrate that API and its team directly into Twitter’s offerings. Brady Forrest for O’Reilly Radar on the possible implications of this acquisition: "Second, does this herald Twitter’s moves into being a location provider? At…

The Twitter blog has a brand new design and it looks pretty slick. However, it no longer shows trackbacks and/or comments for each blog post effectively losing a few years worth of data. Boo.

WordPress.com, to be specific, now has an API that mirrors the Twitter API. This effectively allows any Twitter client, such as Tweetie or Hahlo, to read and write to WordPress.com powered blogs only by changing their API endpoint. Hopefully this feature will be available via a plugin sometime in the near future? /via Tony Schneider.

Hot on the heels of WordPress’ Twitter API Tumblr has announced their own Twitter-like API for reading and writing to Tumblogs. I love that they came right out and said that they were inspired by WordPress’ move.

Last night, long after my "sleep" preference that I have set up on Twitter, I got a text message from Paul Stamatiou via Twitter. I follow Paul, or @Stammy as he’s known on Twitter, but I do not have him turned on for SMS notifications. Odd, I thought. I rolled over and went back to…

I’ve just started following Ze Frank on Twitter. I’ve added him to my "met" list (remember my Twitter lists?) and some have asked why. Well, because he and I met in 2007 in Austin, TX as SXSWi. We had a pretty good chat. Ze is incredibly talented and creative and has an interesting story. If…

I’ve just started following Ze Frank on Twitter. I’ve added him to my "met" list (remember my Twitter lists?) and some have asked why. Well, because he and I met in 2007 in Austin, TX as SXSWi. We had a pretty good chat. Ze is incredibly talented and creative and has an interesting story. If…

I’ve just started following Ze Frank on Twitter. I’ve added him to my "met" list (remember my Twitter lists?) and some have asked why. Well, because he and I met in 2007 in Austin, TX as SXSWi. We had a pretty good chat. Ze is incredibly talented and creative and has an interesting story. If…

I’ve just started following Ze Frank on Twitter. I’ve added him to my "met" list (remember my Twitter lists?) and some have asked why. Well, because he and I met in 2007 in Austin, TX as SXSWi. We had a pretty good chat. Ze is incredibly talented and creative and has an interesting story. If…

I’ve just started following Ze Frank on Twitter. I’ve added him to my "met" list (remember my Twitter lists?) and some have asked why. Well, because he and I met in 2007 in Austin, TX as SXSWi. We had a pretty good chat. Ze is incredibly talented and creative and has an interesting story. If…

I’ve just started following Ze Frank on Twitter. I’ve added him to my "met" list (remember my Twitter lists?) and some have asked why. Well, because he and I met in 2007 in Austin, TX as SXSWi. We had a pretty good chat. Ze is incredibly talented and creative and has an interesting story. If…

I’ve just started following Ze Frank on Twitter. I’ve added him to my "met" list (remember my Twitter lists?) and some have asked why. Well, because he and I met in 2007 in Austin, TX as SXSWi. We had a pretty good chat. Ze is incredibly talented and creative and has an interesting story. If…

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.

Twitter, by default, uses Bit.ly to shorten URLs for use with SMS, the API, etc. But on its Web site Twitter shows you the original URL (or at least part of it) so that people know where they’ll be going if they click on the link. Or, at least that is why I think they…

I don’t like to make it a habit of following people on Twitter that I haven’t met. But I’ve made a few exceptions – mostly people I know "online" but not off and celebrities. I was wondering tonight: "How many people do I follow that I haven’t met?". So I created a list for just…