3 posts tagged “twitter”

haruszpapa mentioned it was now possible to embed Twitter on your Vox page. Not the same thing as putting it in a sidebar, but at least I can put it in a post...

Of course, it appears you can embed just about anything in a post now. Now if we could only do it in the sidebar...

I really wish the overlords at Vox would allow us to add our Twitter timeline onto our Vox page somehow. It's an insanely useful service that just begs to be part of Vox.

Show your support for this idea by tagging your own post with Twitter, marking this post "this is good," and by all means communicate directly with the Vox folks and let them know.

I've now added a perhaps voyeristic feature to my other blog: a status message from twitter. I'd add it here as well except there isn't a way for me to add a block of Javascript to my Vox site. I've left some feedback for the people at SixApart about this. Maybe they'll add the ability to add a Twitter block at some point.

Twitter is an SMS-based service where you can update a group of people with a single text message or a short message from the web. The message is then sent to your buddies over SMS and is available to be queried over the web. People can "subscribe" your presence and you can "subscribe" to other people's presence. You receive the updates over SMS. 

I'm sure the carriers absolutely love Twitter because it drives the use of text messaging. Too bad more people I know don't use it.

While they haven't released an API for it yet, they have made available two kinds of badges: one using Flash, the other using Javascript. The Javascript-based method was released this past week and is what I am using on phoneboy.com right now. The badge gives you my latest status from Twitter so you can get an idea of what I'm doing right now. And all I have to do to update it is send a brief text message.