as did I with http://jazzychad.net/twgroups/
as have many others... On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Ninjamonk <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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!"
