Fans of Tech » twitter http://www.fansoftech.com Web. Gadgets. Tech. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:52:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Twitter Invades World of Warcraft via TweetCraft http://www.fansoftech.com/2009/08/15/twitter-invades-world-of-warcraft-via-tweetcraft/ http://www.fansoftech.com/2009/08/15/twitter-invades-world-of-warcraft-via-tweetcraft/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:56:58 +0000 Jason http://www.fansoftech.com/?p=631 It was inevitable. Twitter has entered the gaming arena. (If it hasn’t already, that is – and I’m sure it has… I just don’t keep up that much with in-gaming Twittering.)

Recently added to the CodePlex (Microsoft’s version of SourceForge.net) is a little app by the name of TweetCraft. As you’d expect from the title, TweetCraft enables you to both read and compose “tweets” while within WoW. The app is currently on a stable release and can be downloaded from tweetcraft.codeplex.com… and it actually looks pretty cool. Plus, like with any above-average Twitter client, you can schedule your tweets and even send screenshots of your current game using the built-in TwitPic integration.

Plus, if you’re a WoW fan/Visual Studio expert, you can easily enhance the application and create your own TweetCraft addons. If you’re not big into programming but might be interested in learning and are still a student, you can grab a full version of Visual Studio 2008 (plus alot more) via Microsoft’s DreamSpark program.

Check out the insanely-awesome overview video below or just start playing with the app now.

(Seriously, that has to be one of the most well-made promo videos I’ve ever seen.)

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Earlier this year, we noticed that the number of people we were following on Twitter was consistently rising. Here’s the problem with that: only one person manages that account, yours truly, and I wasn’t following these people.

So, a support ticket was made on Twitter’s support site and 2 quick, um, weeks later, we had a response waiting for us: it’s a bug… sorry about that.

Anyway, that left me with hundreds of people to unfollow. (Sorry but I actually pay attention to my Twitter stream and following masters of MLM doesn’t help me out at all.)

Regardless, this might normally entail navigating through pages and pages of people and manually unfollowing each of them if it weren’t for Twitter’s abundantly-used API. Here’s what I did:

Using My Tweeple, I exported an entire list of those I was following and those following me, pulled it into Excel and removed everyone with whom I was unfamiliar.

Once I had the list, I took it straight to the recently-released Nest.Unclutterer, added the entries to the whitelist option and proceeded to unfollow everyone we needed to. Of course, we could only unfollow dozens at a time but it certainly took less time than doing each individually.

Random Twitter app to the rescue once again.

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  • @woothemes “blogging+streaming” looks great. will “journal” be next since it was ranked so high on the last poll? #

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  • @andrea_r Signed up for ElegantThemes and it’s great. Themes from WooThemes seem to be constructed *quite* well, also. in reply to andrea_r #
  • RT @smashingmag give away 1Helvetica Red Moleskine – http://is.gd/lvxv. To participate, just RT this msg! #

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  • @kiranp Hilarious… I recently bought my nephew a shirt that said that. Good stuff, indeed. #
  • IE 8.1 to feature new JS engine, support for Firefox add-ons & mult. browser rendering engine? http://snipr.com/exj29 [via Smashing Mag] #
  • Google releases “Suggest”-esque functionality for Gmail (Labs) – looks very cool: http://is.gd/qlM0 [Official Gmail Blog Post] #

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  • Sweet fancy… the “Ultimate Guide for Evrythng Twitter” really is the ult guide for evrythng Twitter http://is.gd/oF6o via WebDesignerDepot #
  • @BambiBlue Yes. Undoubtedly, resoundingly “yes” #
  • RT @pocketinfo: Windows Mobile 7 to feature Zune Store integration: http://tinyurl.com/dfr5l5 #
  • Mozilla’s Thunderbird can integrate with Windows Search by default? Suh-weet! #
  • Nostalgy add-on for Thunderbird brings Gmail-like keyboard shortcuts for navigation/organization. Exccccellent. #
  • Snipd.com can help u capture (or “snip”) txt, vidz, etc. 2 save 4 later but the srvice is in nd of some orgnztion & 3rd-prty intgrtion tools #
  • Stopped using RTMilk for a few months. Trying to “catch up” on (i.e., delete) tasks that are scheduled to repeat is ridiculously tedious… #

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  • Q: Tethering on iPhone? A: client-side support is built into 3.0 – just need to work with carriers. Finally… #
  • http://www.tweepme.com – the first 5,000 members receive free lifetime subscriptions #TweepMe #
  • Very interesting concept… RT @fastcompany: Time Inc.’s Mine Magazine is a Printed RSS Feed http://shortn.me/hx #
  • @kzaleski Stewart’s first tirade was absolutely hilarious. Looking forward to what he’ll have to say tonight… #

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  • This is 100% craziness… can’t possibly be true… can it? RT @Scobleizer “Flock abandons Firefox for Google Chrome” http://ff.im/1iUmR #
  • @BambiBlue Love that quote. ;) Good to hear you’re feeling better. You’ve been down-and-out for a while… #
  • Just signed up for ElegantThemes.com – currently downloading largest WordPress theme I’ve ever encountered: 42mb. (Probably PSDs, etc.) #

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  • @Scobleizer If u have the URLs for the status updates, u can paste into ShareTabs.com which piles them into one URL.. *very* convenient. #
  • RT @hootsuite “HootSuite.com will be down for maintenance [blah blah]. We’ll be adding more cowbell.” Love it! :D #
  • alright, Twitter folk… help me decide. lifetime registration to vladstudio.com… worth it? yes/no? #
  • @sarahintampa Without a doubt: YES! I thought for sure they’d bring it back in 7 after people complained about that in Vista. But nope… #
  • @jhaynie thanks for the note, man… looking into that now. thought it was odd that there had been no comments. ;) in reply to jhaynie #
  • @jhaynie Alright, should be corrected. Comment away! in reply to jhaynie #
  • @jhaynie FYI, I briefly cvrd Titanium on the site bout a month back. Chk it out, lemme know if any info is inaccurate: http://ow.ly/wZ7 #
  • ok ppl, all is well w/ comments on the site and u’ve still got a shot @ wnning DisplayFusion lic: http://ow.ly/wZM. Thx 4 msgs & emails! #

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  • @andrea_r TOS. You mean we’re supposed to read that? ;) #
  • @longzheng Most of Google’s WinMo options thus far have been quite sucktastic… with the lot of them rquirng a java client. Srsly… java? #
  • Sad. Coghead shuts down. http://is.gd/k3eS [via TechCrunch] #
  • Hit F1 (help) in Firefox when I meant to hit F5 (refresh)… don’t know that I’ve ever seen the Firefox “help” page before. #
  • I’m officially 100% against sites that r based ENTIRELY in Flash. A little isn’t so bad – but 2 have forms, etc. in Flash… ? Anyone agree? #
  • @jtackabury Kudos! I know it’s been a long road for ya… (20+ betas!) Can’t wait for the final release! #
  • “Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data to the RIAA” over the recently-leaked U2 album? [via TechCrunch] http://is.gd/kiqr #
  • @tara_kelly Just commented. ;) Using Excel to manage passwords!? Yeesh! I haven’t done that for years! :-D #

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