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Comment on 'TwitterNotes - Technical details' by Sérgio Santos

2008-01-31T18:43:59Z

You just have to login on TwitterNotes using your Twitter account information. Then you can start twittering messages starting with a plus sign, in order to take notes. For more information check out the FAQ.

Comment on 'TwitterNotes - Technical details' by Andrew

2008-01-31T10:02:05Z

Please give me exact the steps using twitternotes, i tried but failed

Comment on 'TwitterNotes - Technical details' by tamara

2008-01-25T03:05:00Z

Dear developer I want to know how can I tweet something from my account to make it appear in twitternotes of other user, can't I?

Comment on 'TwitterNotes - Technical details' by Sérgio Santos

2007-09-18T16:54:56Z

We just run the login information on TwitterNotes against Twitter's, on the first login. If you change Twitter's password, you need to change it too on TwitterNotes, or else we won't be retrieving any messages.

I have already did several experiments with Twitter4R and Twitter's API and I haven't found a way to get older messages, unless I don't have their specific id. I maybe me missing something, but 'since' just narrows the results from the last 20 Twitter messages anyway. And fetching that much messages every time someone logs in, it might take too long.

Comment on 'TwitterNotes - Technical details' by Mind Booster Noori

2007-09-18T11:47:52Z

How do you deal with Twitter password changes? Why don't you fetch 20 by 20 (using the 'id' and 'since' parameters)? Notice that I'm asking questions just because you told us to do it O:-)

Comment on 'TwitterNotes - Technical details' by Sérgio Santos

2007-09-18T09:20:19Z

So many questions, but I asking for them.

I need to save Twitter's username/password due to the limitation of the Twitter API that only allows you to take the last 20 messages for a user's timeline. Therefore, we need to run a script in the background making sure notes aren't missed between login and refresh times. About the privacy policy, some terms can be found inside the FAQ, but probably a more detailed description will be written and posted on the website.

I use mongrel locally since it's a faster web server than WEBbrick, the one which comes bundled with Rails.

Trying not to make a long speech, the expectation are that we gather a lot of curious who only try it once or so, but specially more power user who would use TwitterNotes more actively and frequently. For the future, we are now working on a method to allow private notes, and we may already have came up with a solution for it. There's also more room for more improvement in the interface, but we'll be careful tweaking it.

Comment on 'TwitterNotes - Technical details' by Mind Booster Noori

2007-09-17T23:32:00Z

Just a few questions: 1) Why do you need to save Twitter's username/password of TwitterNotes users? 2) Since you do it, what (and where) is your Privacy Policy? 3) Why Mongrel? 4) What usage expectations do you have for this app? 5) What are your future plans for TwitterNotes?

Comment on 'TwitterNotes - Technical details' by Sérgio Santos

2007-09-17T23:31:59Z

Well, there's no way of filtering posts from going into Twitter. The only possibility would be checking each second for new messages, but that would trigger excessive use of the API, and probably wouldn't be fast enough to avoid the notifications.

There's the possibility, although it would create a different set of problems, to make our own Twitter client. But or we make something available on several platforms or it wouldn't have many reach.

But I guess I will start a discussion over at the community over that matter, since you're not the first one asking for a method to send private notes.

Nevertheless, there's also a large range of use for TwitterNotes, with notes being public, since most Twitter users enjoy more the sharing and community aspect of the service.

Comment on 'TwitterNotes - Technical details' by André

2007-09-17T20:06:41Z

So basically you just glued together the pieces. well done. Listen, is there any way that my notes aren't made public? I don't want the world to see what's going on in my head... they could use it against me! ;) Thanks.