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Twivatar, a Twitter avatar API

Domain dead; native API available Due to a number of factors, twivatar.org is no longer active (the domain was in fact doomed) – however Twitter stepped up, and now there’s an API to get the avatar directly from them: http://twitter.com/api/users/profile_image/rem – so no longer any need for twivatar anyway. I’ve built a number of different [...]

Autocomplete & even better twitter keys

So I’ve been going a bit greasemonkey mad of late, and with the recent release of Twitter Keys I quickly found myself wanting something like tab completion for the twitter keys. A few hours of weekend playing later, I’ve got automatic Twitter keys (or optionally tab completed). But I’ve also decided to take it a [...]

Twitter Upgrades via Greasemonkey

Quickly following on from my greasemonkey script yesterday, Josh Russell, local Brightonite, updated his (and Dave’s Twitter search script. So I’ve taken it upon myself to a) upgrade his script to work on all pages, not just the home page, and meld together my Twitter scripts with his moving towards (in my best deep Jerry [...]

Tweet offline & better locations

If you follow me on Twitter you’ll have seen that I’ve been moaning a bit lot about using Twitter as an alternative to email or IM. Rather than bitch and moan the whole time, I’ve made myself a solution: I can now pull a tweet in to an email and thus continue/create the conversation offline. [...]

Twitter script upgrades & JSONP hacking

Given that recently Twitter has been going up and down like a yo-yo (and I’m sure they’re working on it), I’ve upgraded the twitter script to support timeouts. Twitter have also messed with the API…

Upgrade to Twitter JavaScript for your blog

I’ve been following the requests on the current Twitter JS plugin and decided to implement a few. In particular there’s now support for templates, which gives you full control of how the tweet is displayed.

Linkify + upgrade to twitter plugin

The twitter plugin has just been upgraded to (optionally) search for links in the twitter text and activate them as link. So I thought I’d share the linkify code.