Bottom Line: I like Safari’s “Share via Twitter” button that lets you Tweet a URL, so I wrote a Quicksilver action to do something similar. (more…)
Posts Tagged: Twitter
How to fix a broken “Click to Tweet” button in Mountain Lion Notification Center
Bottom line: If your “Click to Tweet” button quits working in Mountain Lion, you can fix it by quitting Notification Center with Activity Monitor.
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Repost: How to Use Quicksilver to Post Tweets to Twitter in 2012
Bottom line: Clever, easy way to set up Quicksilver triggers for apps that can launch via URL scheme.
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Twitter and Formulists
Bottom line: Formulists is an awesome webapp that autopopulates lists based on user-defined criteria.
For those of you jumping on the Twitter bandwagon — Twitter’s “Lists” feature seems to be really underutilized. Most people don’t even realize that you can add someone to a “list” without actually following them. This makes it almost like having multiple Twitter accounts (which is another viable option) in that these users won’t show up in your primary timeline, but at any time you can go to your lists, each of which is like its own timeline.
One example of how this is useful is for using Twitter as a news tool. I follow a number of medicine-relevant twitter accounts like @NEJM, @theNCI, @NPRHealth, and several others. If I didn’t want all of their tweets to crowd my main timeline, I could just add them all to a list called “Medical News,” which I could then check whenever I wanted.
Your lists can be public or private. Public lists can then be followed by others, private lists are… private. For example, I have a private list called “Matters,” which I’ve manually populated with “real” people that I actually know in person. It’s nice to scan this list on occasion and have all their tweets in one place. I have others for iPhone and Mac developers that I like, since their Twitter feeds are frequently the fastest way to get support and/or news on updates.
@Formulists is a cool free WebApp that can automatically populate lists for you based on a number of criteria. These lists then show up in your regular Twitter lists. Some of their handy auto lists help you find new tweeters to follow by listing people that share common interests or follow the same people you follow. Other lists help filter people you follow by location, by number of followers, by whether they follow you back — all kinds of stuff. One of the handier lists I have is just a list of accounts that I haven’t listed. I can check this every so often and quickly categorize the accounts I follow to keep everything tidy. Another filters people I follow by location, so I can check out what trouble is brewing locally.
Anyone else find any good use for Twitter lists? To be honest, I find it a feature with lots of potential that I persistently underutilize.
Unheard in New York
What a fantastically interesting social experiment! Unheard in New York is a program that has given 4 homeless individuals Twitter acounts and a prepaid cell phone with a month of free text messages.
If you’d like to follow along, they are: Danny (@putodanny), Derrick (@awitness2011), Albert (@albert814) and Carlos (@jessie550)
http://awesomescreenshot.com/0417qc028
(Pic taken from the official website)
Looks like their tweets may a little difficult to decipher at first, but I think this is incredible. What an opportunity to get inight into their lives! According to the site, unemployment in NYC increased by 1/3 during 2009. I haven’t taken the time to verify if this is true or not (Step 1 of my boards is tomorrow), but I thought I’d take a quick minute to post this. More thoughts later.
