dizzysoft software

Thanks to all my loyal users- and pressure from Twitter to update the program before the oauth-apocalypse on August 16th- I have completely rewritten FeedTwit and made some improvements along the way.

The first thing you will notice is a site redesign. Thanks to Brazilian web developer Rafael Cavalcante site has a great new look and mascot. I have enjoyed working with him in this project and am sure he could help you with any web development you might need, as well.

The second major change is how you login. I will no longer be sending people unique passwords for them to login. Instead they will use Twitter’s Oauth interface. There are many advantages to this- many of which are behind the scenes- but the greatest is that you don’t have to remember yet another password to use FeedTwit. Instead you will login to FeedTwit through your own Twitter account.

One important note about oauth login… You have until August 16th to connect with the new FeedTwit or you will no longer receive any messages. That is the day (also known as the oauth-apocalypse) where Twitter is requiring all programs to connect with their users over oauth. Consider yourself warned.

Some of the other advantages of this new way of account verification will lead to:

• Quicker turn around for your @ replies
• No more duplicated messages (BUT PLEASE READ BELOW)
• Everything is just a little simpler- basically you just need to press the button on the FeedTwit homepage in order to begin

About duplicated messages
Previous users of FeedTwit will have to take one extra step in order to prevent duplicated messages: after you login to FeedTwit you will have to delete the RSS feed associated with your @ replies. Without boring you with the programming details, this is how I used to know if anyone mentioned you on Twitter. If you don’t delete this, you will receive messages by the new way AND by the old way = duplicated messages. I wish I could automatically remove this for you, but there’s no way I can do it without harming people using the service who haven’t had a chance to login.

I have worked hard to keep the rest of the site up and running through this transition. This includes the popular Twitter uptime status widget- that tells you if Twitter is running or not- and the Twitter usage statistics page- which shows you when people are on Twitter. Along with this I have cleaned-up the Twitter cell phone page, which keeps a list of phones people use on Twitter (be sure to add your own, by the way).

I hope you enjoy the newly redesigned FeedTwit site (and hope it works a little better). Tell me what you think in the comments below.