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A Couple Of Questions For You About BeTwittered.

Sun, 02/03/2008 - 05:06 — metarobert
I need a bit of help. I'd like to make a couple of improvements to BeTwittered, but I have a couple of questions I need some feedback on. I'm wondering if you (if you use BeTwittered) would like me to add those "posted about 1 hour ago" type of timestamps to messages. I really like them, but I'm not sure how important they are to everyone else. I suppose I could just put them in as an option. Question for you, then: Would you rather have the timestamps on or off by default? The other bit of help I need is from Mac users. I can test on Linux and Windows using Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. Some of you (quite a few actually) are Mac users. Any information about BeTwittered from Mac users would be really great. What do you like about it? What is wrong with it for you? Does it look "nice"? If someone wouldn't mind sending me a screen-shot, that would be very appreciated. I'd like to make sure it looks good for you, too. You can comment here by clicking the "comments" link, just a bit down the page from here, before the next article. You can also use the link for feedback at the top of BeTwittered, or just send an email to codemonkey@32hours.com, which is the mailbox I use for BeTwittered communications.

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Mon, 02/18/2008 - 19:13 — robert (not verified)

Hi Chris. Thanks very much

Hi Chris. Thanks very much for the excellent input. I really do appreciate it. I'd actually forgotten that there is a Safari for Windows. I'll be doing an install tomorrow!

BeTwittered actually updates once every 3 minutes. Twitter actually imposes a limit of 70 requests per 60 minutes. I wanted to be cautious not to hit twitter too hard, in case some folks are also using a desktop app or widget. But, that's actually a good option to add. I think I may put that in, but I need to think a bit about that. I'm looking at changing the way BeTwittered polls for new messages which might get it closer to "real-time" and remove the need for an option.

Thanks, too for your input about the timestamps. I'm definitely going to add that. I think that I may have them off by default, and allow you to turn them on if you like. Not 100% sure yet.

Thanks for taking the time to let me know what you think!

Mon, 02/18/2008 - 18:19 — Chris (not verified)

Whoops - forgot to answer the

Whoops - forgot to answer the most important bit: I'd love to have timestamps!

Mon, 02/18/2008 - 18:18 — Chris (not verified)

Just discovered BeTwittered

Just discovered BeTwittered tonight, liking it so far -- thanks!

Regarding the Mac question: Not the entire answer, but do keep in mind that Safari for Windows is available if you want to at least check stuff in Safari.

Say, how often does BeTwittered update -- and could it be configurable in the future?