I didn’t have the chance to blog about it, but I noticed the other day that Twitter set their API limit back to 70 requests per hour without mentioning it on their status blog. I just checked the blog again, and they’ve actually raised the limit to 100 requests per hour. I’ve been quite disenchanted [...]
Those of you who use Twitter know that the folks at Twitter haven’t been able to keep the service running properly. You may also know that in an effort to combat the enormous amounts of negative PR that they were receiving as a result the downtime, they started the Twitter Status Blog, which keeps you [...]
Since most of you probably don’t care why your twitter client (i.e. twhirl, AlertThingy, etc.) isn’t working and just want to know how to fix it, I’ll go through the fix first.
If you’re getting a “limit exceeded” message or if you simply stop receiving Tweets, you need to tell your client to request your Tweets less often.
Changing this setting [...]
If you use Twitter, you know that it’s had significant downtime recently. The Twitter team apparently figured out that the source of at least some of their problems was a Jabber client. However, they didn’t mention that they lowered their API limits to 30 authenticated requests per hour (down from 70). They also had some database issues [...]
I stumbled upon (as in came across, not actually Stumbled Upon) a blog post about Tweet Clouds, a service that provides a tag cloud of your tweets. This is pretty interesting for personal use, but what are the other ramifications? Eric Gonzalez asks these questions:
Will Twittercloud analysis become as common an HR [...]
A quick tutorial for the uninitiated. Twitter is a micro-blogging service that asks you the question, “What are you doing now?” (Or “What were you doing?” if you believe @davidrussell.) It’s widely used by people interested in technology and serves as a combination IM/forum for the discussion of the latest trends and tips [...]
