Announcing Twitgit, a Dashboard widget for Twitter

8 Responses to “Announcing Twitgit, a Dashboard widget for Twitter”

1. Comment by http://brandamage.com luxuryluke

   November 23rd, 2006 at 12:35 am 2006-11-23PST00:35:35-0800

   Wooohoooo!

2. Comment by http://cdevroe.com/ Colin D. Devroe

   November 23rd, 2006 at 6:41 am 2006-11-23PST06:41:32-0800

   My only fear with this is – and perhaps this was completely intentional – is that it makes Twitter seem a chat client. I believe it’s original purpose was to show the current status of it’s members.

   Again, the ability to IM in your statuses (thought of as a matter of convieneance from the developers no doubt), does the same thing as this widget does. Makes Twitter into a huge Chatroom.

   Nice job on the widget, I’ll probably end up using it…. but I got sucked into using Twitter to chat and I don’t think I’ll be using it like that ever again. Huge waste of time.

3. Comment by http://ben-ward.co.uk Ben

   November 23rd, 2006 at 9:46 am 2006-11-23PST09:46:49-0800

   Colin: It’s interesting you think that because for me, one of the reasons for building the widget was to try and get a llittle away from the ‘chat instinct’ that I found when Twitter was integrated into my IM client. For me, at least the widget is in a different place, even though the information is the same.

   Personally, I think in a week or so Twitter will naturally settle down again and return to something that’s at least nearer the original purpose; at the moment there are bundles of new people signing up enthusiastically every day and it takes everyone a little while to realise that the differing friends lists make it less suitable for all out public chat. Which isn’t to say the exchange of messages is bad; I do love the way that if you’re pondering something that can get an answer, you can often get little suggestions back.

4. Comment by http://cdevroe.com/ Colin D. Devroe

   November 23rd, 2006 at 10:50 pm 2006-11-23PST22:50:21-0800

   To say that Twidgit makes Twitter feel like a chatroom as much, or more than, via IM is not fair. Twidgit definitely makes Twitter feel less like a chat room than getting statuses via IM. For sure.

   Looking forward to future releases.

5. Comment by http://muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart Colville

   November 24th, 2006 at 9:20 am 2006-11-24PST09:20:03-0800

   I’m loving Twitgit. The constant hassling that my IM client was giving me was far too distracting.

   One suggestion would be to replace the “Refreshing Twitterings” With an absolutely positioned throbber (spinning disc) in the top right hand corner. This will then not push down the content (which is a distraction in itself) and will also alleviate the cut-off problem in 0.5

   Thanks for building this Ben, it’s now my preferred method for Twittering.

6. Comment by http://ben-ward.co.uk Ben

   November 24th, 2006 at 9:50 am 2006-11-24PST09:50:11-0800

   Thanks Stuart, it’s nice to have produced something useful.

   Two things in the works to fix your problem: Once I get scrollbars in I can fix the height of the widget (resizing will come later) and the notification bar will be redone with position:fixed to make it overlay rather than push down. It’s used to display errors as well as the ‘Refreshing’.

   The ‘Refreshing’ will go, and be replaced with another kind of activity indicator. I’ve got a fair bit of train travel to do this weekend, so I’ll take a local copy of the JSON and hack away on the train.

7. Comment by Brad Dielman

   November 25th, 2006 at 4:19 am 2006-11-25PST04:19:25-0800

   Great work! I plan on getting a Mac soon and this gives me another item to add to my list of must haves once I’ve procured one.

8. Comment by http://www.jayonline.co.uk Jim Callender

   December 14th, 2006 at 12:46 am 2006-12-14PST00:46:44-0800

   WOOHOO! go twitter lovers, something to make this darn thing even more addictive.. sorry family can’t go to church, at xmas twitter is something i have to attend to!

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