http://blog.twitoaster.com Official blog of Twitoaster, the Twitter service threading and archiving your Twitter conversations Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:00:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Twitter Hot Conversations appearing on Twitoaster home page are now linked to the countries they are “coming from”. The country you’re living in should be automatically detected, but you also have the possibility to change it, if you want to see what’s going on elsewhere. [caption id="attachment_167" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Select a ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/twitter-conversations-geolocation You can now embed a Twitter conversation on your blog or your website (just like you do for a YouTube video) through our Twitter Conversation Widget. On all conversations – tracked in real time on Twitoaster – you’ll find a new purple button called “Embed Conversation”. Simply define the size of ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/twitter-conversation-widget Sometimes, I receive questions from users wondering why a specific tweet mentioning their username is not appearing on their Twitoaster page. Most of the time, it’s because the tweet is neither a reply (in reply to a given a tweet) nor a retweet (reusing a given tweet) but a simple ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/how-to-handle-twitter-mentions How many twitterers are reading your tweets? Well… You obviously get an idea if you take a look on your number of followers. But when a tweet is retweeted by someone, this "someones’s followers" are also receiving - and probably reading - your tweet as well. This is what I call 2nd ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/twitter-second-level-followers As announced a few days ago, real time threading and retweets (RT) support is now active for all Twitoaster users! Real time threading means no more “sync” delays. If you tweet, reply or retweet something from Twitter or any other Twitter application, you’ll see it a few seconds later, threaded on ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/twitter-real-time-threading-and-retweets Well.. I'll tell you: Twitoaster is going to be improved with three major features and technical changes! Servers changes: Twitoaster is about to move to new and more powerful machines. This new system will be “connected” to Twitter though their Streaming API (aka Firehose), bringing the features listed below. Real Time Threading: ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/wondering-what-is-coming-next-year You've noticed it: Twitoaster is completely free and it's sponsored by advertising. As promised, a new option allowing you to hide all these ads has been introduced today. No "premium account" or whatever needed... Just a click from this page and that's it, no more ads. Cool, isn't it? Remember these ads are ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/hide-remove-ads-on-twitoaster Twitoaster’s feeds have been moved from the RSS2 format to the Atom format with purl threading extension. If your feed reader supports it, you’ll be able to see all the conversation (threaded), directly from your reader. For the time being, three kinds of feeds are supported: Conversation feed: all the replies of ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/rss-feeds-move-to-atom As promised, the geolocation & countries features have just been released, and are now available on Twitoaster (note the API will reflect these changes very soon). How does it work? - Twitoaster converts your Twitter "location" field into geographic coordinates (latitude / longitude). Then, it uses these coordinates to get your ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/twitter-geolocation-countries Some of you were wondering why this blog didn’t receive any update these last days. The thing is I really have been snowed under, and I didn't have time to keep you updated. Sorry for that! A lot of work on Twitoaster, plus the fact that I’m currently relocating (and I ... http://blog.twitoaster.com/new-features-coming-soon