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On changing my avatar

I joined twitter around early 2007 and during those early months I toyed with a number of different avatars. At some point I settled on the avatar I have now - just a quick snap of me in front of my desktop. However, as the years went on, I got chubbier, I usually sport a light [...]

Antisocial spaces on Twitter

Hopefully this doesn't become a meme instead of what I intend for this blog post. There's a way to consume at @reply timeline in Twitter by just stuffing a shed load of new lines with anything at the end (like a period). If you're a twitter app developer, please consider removing multiple white space in row. [...]

Hacking Twitter's reply system

I'm only writing about this because I still see some tweets coming out of Twitter that are intended for everyone, but end up just going to a select few. This trick is pretty well used, but hopefully it'll help those people who haven't spotted it yet.

Native Retweets

Users of Twitter created the idiom "RT @suchnsuch said sumfink", and as with @ replies, RT's have been rolled in to Twitter's architecture. Now we have, what I think should be called, the native retweet. It was turned on for early users and more of the "twittersphere" is getting the feature now. Certainly the [...]

A better Twitter search

If you've not noticed already the search in Twitter has been downgraded to 7 days history. In fact, that changed some time ago. I've had the good fortune to be able to ask Twitter employees directly about the history via attending Devnest and I've been assured the history is being kept. That doesn't solve [...]

Twitpic API for getting pictures out

I've been using Twitpic either via TwitterFon on my iPhone or Tweetie from my desktop for Twitter, but one thing struck me last night: Twitpic doesn't allow me to get my content back out. So here's my fix: http://twitpicapi.appspot.com/

New Projects, more writing & more speaking

I wanted to let you know, my dear reader, what I've been up to lately, but more over that I'm going to start cross posting my other articles to this blog.