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: This means no more “sync [...]
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 Twitoaster’s only income. If they [...]
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 a conversation.
Twitterer feed: the 20 [...]
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 country.
What does it bring? – [...]
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 guess you know how that [...]
Welcome on the Twitoaster blog!
The idea of this blog is to provide you information when Twitoaster is upgraded or when a new feature is launched. This blog will also be used to organize the Twitoaster roadmap and reorder priorities, thanks to your suggestions.
I was also thinking to include less formal subjects, like a “best of [...]