Me, Myself and Mayvelous
11 Oct
A friend of mine invited me to Twitter a while back and I wasn’t really interested for it has an ugly interface and the site is ugly and … it was ugly and … just ugly and … well I decided not to like it.
Anyhow, I subscribed to their newsletter updates and from today’s issue, I came across this Twitter Apps page.
I was surprised to find that there are quite a number of applications developed for this ugly Twitty thingie and I learn some new words from there, like – Twadget, Twitterlex, TwitDir, Twitterverse, Twitigg, Twotteroo, TwittIt, Twitterlicious, TwitterBerry, JTwitter, iTwit, Twippera, TwittyTunes, TwitterFox etc…and I got myself a twitted twisted tongue.
Since I’m not a fan of Desktop Apps, and more of Web/Browser Apps, I decided to check out a few FF extensions from there. I installed TwittyTunes, Power Twitter Plugin for Firefox and Twitterbar Addon for Firefox/Flock.
I’m one of those who are too lazy to read through instructions but want to see result instantly, so after the installation I expected to see obvious result. The only obvious result I can see with above three extensions is from TwittyTunes where it created its icon at the bottom-right of my browser status bar. Its functionalities are just so cool and easy to use with one click away.
As for the other two extensions, no obvious new icons or context-menus were shown; only when I customize the toolbar then I found the icon of TwitterBar which I need to drag out to the tool bar. I was expecting to try out Power Twitter’s cool functionalities such as posting images, audio and video to Twitter as mentioned on their page, but was disappointed to find that there is no obvious function to play around with. I can’t even find its icon and I don’t know how to test that out. May be my bad eyes.
Anyway I uninstalled the other two and stick with TwittyTune. I posted a twit or two with it and immediately I was hooked.
All thanks to lovely TwittyTune, I am beginning to find Twitting interesting. Previously I post random thoughts on one of my blogs but Twitter is more convenient way of posting randomness and nonsense. So I decided to make a good use of it. And here it goes, my one and very own “TwittVelous” to publicize my cunning craziness!!! Ke Ke Ke…Fu Fu Fu < — Japanese way of laughing
Oh yah, if you wanna follow my nonsense then go ahead here is my RVelous, I mean RSS.
Ciao!
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3 Responses for "Twitting and Terring with TwittVelous"
Now we see why the blog has been a little slow of late.
Too bad there’s no obvious way of filtering Twitter feeds: it would be so much more useful if I could subscribe to a feed of “Philosophic pondering, Links and New Discoveries” for people, and not have to wade through the details of what time people got out of bed, what mood they’re in or if their friends just stood them up.
Blog has been slow? You mean load time or no posting much?
Yah can’t do filtering in twitter. Twitter, as I understand is not suppose to be “Geekie Quick Notes” kind of thing, but to answer one plain question, “What are you doing?”, only.
So if we go along with the site main purpose of posting “What are you doing”, those useless and silly things like getting out of bet, eating lunch would suit best.
But ofcos, it’s all depend on you how you make good use of the app. I for once is just testing things out and enjoy myself until I get bored of it.
Hi,
Very nice tool but when I am trying to post something to twitter from twitterbar addon it just keep saying …
Posting to Twitter… and this small circle keep rotating..
and some times it just get back to normal but when I check twitter I don’t find any post there..
I am really trying to find solution for last 2 days but no luck so far.
Please let me know what should I do.
I have even uninstall and install again but same problem I tried on my another computer but same thing.
What I am doing wrong.
Cheers
Amit