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Testers for a new top-secret iPhone Twitter app needed

Posted by natetrue 7 weeks ago

Yo, I need 100 people who are both jailbroken iPhone users and active Twitter users to test out a new top-secret Twitter client app for the iPhone. I can't say much here but if you're interested, send your Twitter username to ultratopsecret@natetrue.com - only the first 100 responders will get in.

Yes this is serious.

Tags: client, hamster, iphone, secret, testers, twitter

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My take on Twitter

Posted by natetrue 1 year ago

Most of you have seen the in-bred spawn of IM and blogging that is Twitter in the last week or two as it has taken the blogosphere by storm. I was turned on to Twitter by my good friend Andru Edwards and have since been following the other blogging greats like Chris Pirillo and Robert Scoble as they post every little thing they do.

As a self-confessed attention whore, I also try to post pretty often. I've even gone so far as to make an e-mail to Twitter converter bot which can take Eyejot or photo attachments and post them to my (or your) Twitter account. I can now, for example, take a photo with my ultra-sleek Treo 600 and e-mail it to the bot, which will save the photo and post the subject and a link to the photo to my Twitter account.

It's weird, Twitter has this oddly addictive quality where you always want to check again to see if someone you know is doing anything interesting or has an interesting thought. Responding is so trivial too that you find yourself involved in long, pointless conversations that somehow keep you glued to your monitor, waiting for new Tweets like a junkie looking to score a fix.

I've also made a very basic Perl script that reads RSS feeds and posts new items to a Twitter account. It's something other people have done and I'm not surprised because it's so easy. Twitter's API is so dead simple, on the same scale as TinyURL's. Just a simple HTTP POST, nothing fancy.

All in all, Twitter has something for both the attention whore and the creepy stalker in all of us. I'm not quite sure whether it's just a fad, though. I think as long as people I'm interested in keep posting, I'll keep coming back, and as long as those people are interested in other people who keep posting, they'll keep coming back. I guess that's the 'critical mass' concept everyone keeps talking about.

If only cre.ations.net would reach that. Why are there so few creative people around?