Items tagged twitter in 2013
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What do Twitter and Gawker think of hash-bangs URLs?
As of December 2013 (and potentially much earlier, I don’t have the exact dates) both Twitter and a Gawker have moved away from hash bang URLs, so my guess is they turned out not to be a good idea.
[... 82 words]How do I put my Twitter picture on my company’s about page so that it automatically updates?
This used to be pretty easy, but Twitter made it a lot harder with their APIv1. You need to do authenticated API calls to access their image API now, which means it’s best to set up a cron job and cache the correct URL.
[... 125 words]How did The Voice implement Twitter voting?
You don’t need full firehouse access to implement this—you can use the statuses/filter API to get a feed of tweets that match a specific hash tag: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api...
[... 63 words]It is posible to send an RSS feed to Twitter geolocalized?
Yes, this is possible using the Twitter API. A competent web programmer should be ale to build this for you in a few hours.
[... 41 words]Why can’t Twitter Web Intent pages be loaded into an iframe?
I imagine this is to discourage clickjacking: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
[... 26 words]Using userstream to listen to events for each user doesn’t seem practicable for an application with thousands of users.
Sounds like you need Site streams: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/str...
[... 55 words]If one were to bring the concept of Twitter to a VC today, would it be invested in, or turned away?
If someone brought just the concept without any form of actual implementation (of something that is pretty easy to prototype) I don’t think they would get very far.
[... 55 words]Does Twitter still care about Tweetdeck?
Anecdotal: I personally know two people who have joined the TweetDeck team at Twitter in the past year. They frequently ship improvements, and seem to be enjoying themselves.
[... 40 words]What are some good examples of tweets used to attract visitors to a new website?
Without knowing what the site does, I’d go for the personal approach: "I just launched my new project, example.com—check it out and let me know what you think!"
[... 52 words]What could be the reason my login with Twitter stopped work in web site?
Yes, there have been breaking changes recently. You need to make sure you are running on Twitter’s API v1.1: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api...
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