nice, I already solved the groups issue with crowdstatus.com some time ago :p
On 11 Feb, 16:00, Brian Breslin <[email protected]> wrote: > Aestetix, > My team worked VERY hard on building twitbin, and I would have liked > it if you had told me you were doing this first. > Twitbin wasn't released as open source. > shoot me an email, you know how to reach me so we can discuss this > privately. > > Regards, > Brianhttp://www.twitbin.com > > On Feb 10, 4:32 pm, aestetix aestetix <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > I wrote a Twitter firefox plugin that (for me) solves a "groups" problem I > > was having. Basically, I wanted to be able to send filtered tweets to > > selected individuals. Rather than simply adding hash tags and parsing out > > tweets, I wanted to have groups where I could send tweets to multiple people > > at once, and yet not to the entire world. I solved this problem with a very > > hackish plugin I'm calling "Twitfilter". > > > It's basically a heavily modified version of an existing plugin, Twitbin, > > with a new feature called "Filters". Upon logging in, you click on > > "Filters", add the names of the people you want to contact, enter the tweet, > > and click send. It automatically sends a direct message to all those > > people. I'm still trying to fix a timing issue, and some of the gui needs > > to be cleaned up (I was up very late this morning writing this), but the > > core concept is there. In other words, it's extremely alpha (version 0.1). > > > What do you guys think? > > > aestetix > > > ------- > > Download:http://pinky.ratman.org/~aestetix/twitfilter.xpi<http://pinky.ratman.org/%7Eaestetix/twitfilter.xpi> > > > Current official documentation: > > 1. To use this, you must already have a twitter account. > > 2. Download and Install the plugin, restart firefox, and you'll see a blue > > bird icon to the left of your address bar. > > 3. Click on that, and either click on login (mouseover the buttons until you > > find it) or click "FRIENDS". > > 4. This allows you to log in, and effectively drops a plugin cookie > > preserving some semblance of state. > > 5. Then click on "FILTERS" > > 6. Enter the screennames of people you want to contact > > 7. Click the "Mass Distribute Tweet" field to enter a message > > 8. Click "Filter Tweets!"
