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Great comic from Blaugh. Good stuff. I need to get me the “Ninja Please” T-Shirt I love some Ninjas!
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Twitterific 2.0 (beta) has been updated. Get the download link via their Twitter page: twitter.com/Twitterrific
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I’ve downloaded the Twitterific beta yesterday and it’s pretty slick. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out Glenn Wolsey has posted a first look and includes some great screen shots, so check it out.
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Eric from Twitteroo dropped by and mentioned that Twitteroo 1.5 has been released with new features and support for the new Twitter.com API that was released yesterday. They are really on the ball!
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Great, this should be fun. Just like the domain squatting of yore, spammers will be snatching up any name that’s seo worthy and then using the accounts to spam link to their sites. Fantastic! Paul talks more about it over at Talk New Media.
I’m very much dreading when spammers start abusing the system, not only will it destroy the flow of conversations but it could end up costing Twitter money as well as people who’ve got it setup to SMS them. Though I think the fact that you have to approve friends should assuage that problem just about entirely.
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Twitter’s API has been updated to allow access to direct messages. I suspect we’ll see new versions of all our favorite twitter tools soon to support this new feature and I’m glad to see it. I wonder it this is what’s been causing the extra strain on the servers today.
The main usage people are speculating at are things like sending a message to a twitter name like “movies” and getting back a current list of movies playing, or scores or weather or stocks… the list goes on.
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It seem Twitter is grinding to a halt this morning. Trying to get my Twitter fix but I can’t even get in with Twitterific or Twitteroo and they usually work even when the site is slow.
Obviously (pun intended) Twitter needs more pipes and/or servers!
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Mike over at Vecosys posits that Twitter is spending in the neighborhood of 115k a month on text messages. When I first read it I figured Twitter was done for, but then I read Pat’s post at Roam4free and he rightly points out that sending SMS messages in the US is free. It costs to receive them. Pat thinks Twitter is more likely spending $25,000 a month, while a much better number is still a boat load of cash to be burning. I don’t think anyone has had a hint at how Evan and the gang at Obvious plan on making money on this. The idea is pretty cool and someone could buy them up simply for popularity of the site right now. How far off are we from ads on the Twitter site? I doubt it’ll come to that. The folks at Obvious seem to subscribe to the build it and the money will come model so I think we’ve yet to see how this will become a money making venture for them, and I hope it does.
Update: I read this on TechCrunch
Currently, it costs a lot of money to launch a start-up in the SMS/mobile space — you have to license a shortcode monthly ($500-$1000/mo), pay a SMS gateway provider, and then pay anywhere from $0.03 - $0.05 per inbound or outbound text message. It adds up. But now, if a start-up chooses to use Twitter as a command line to their web service, it’s free (until Twitter starts charging for it).
If my math is right, and it probably isn’t, that sounds like a lot less than either of these guys figured.
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TwitterBuzz is a great use of Twitter. The site munchs down all the latest tweets and just rips out all the urls. People love dropping links on Twitter and it’s one of the main reasons I follow quite a few people. I’m already trying to think of some mashup possibilities here!
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