socialmedian: Tweet Blender Wins Over Twitter’s Own List Widget

User-submitted headlines for this story

Clip

Tweet Blender Wins Over Twitter’s Own List Widget – For Now

Source: CloudAve

Nov 03, 2009

Summary

CloudAve readers can now follow the contributing bloggers’ twitter stream in a sidebar, thanks to a cool widget called Tweet Blender. Finding it was not easy: I combed through at least 100 plugins / widgets, all doing essentially the same: follow a person, or do keyword search. Either or.. not both. And definitely not a selection of users.

Tweet Blender came to the rescue (before Twitter Lists): it allows to follow any combination of users and keyword searches. Smart! But just days after I installed it along came Twitter Lists … so the writing for Blender was on the wall.

Not until Lists got supported in widgets though.. which is what we’re seeing today. Twitter introduced their List Widget. I quickly replaced Tweet Blender with the new widget, if only for testing at Enterprise Irregulars, thinking it might help with a major problem I have with Twitter API limits.

Here’s the gist of the problem: Every time the widget refreshes, it eats into my API allocation – and it bites big: one API acces per user followed. Here at Enterprise Irregulars we have thirty

...Read the full article

Comments (0)

Add Your Comment