DISQUS

Alex Hillman Writes Here: Twitter tracking is back - sorta

  • Chris Morrell · 1 year ago
    I can certainly see cases were TweetTrak could be useful, but you can also track all (not just from people you're following) @replies by changing a setting in http://twitter.com/account/notifications
  • Alex Hillman · 1 year ago
    @Chris Morrell: Unfortunately, that only works for the web interface (and any clients that support it, like Twitterrific. When I'm away from my desk (which is more and more these days) and don't want to be hitting refresh on search.twitter.com on my iPhone, this is muey bueno!
  • RyanK · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the awesome post! Glad that you like it so far! I pretty much was just tired of track being broken.. so.. I fixed it! (kinda)...

    Thanks for the kind words and look for some more updates soon!
  • 93octane / Lyell E. Petersen · 1 year ago
    Alex:

    Curious. How does this differ from TweetBeep (http://www.tweetbeep.com). TweetBeep sends me a digest of terms I want to track. I get them via email daily. I'm not 100% sure if you can get digests more frequently, but I seem to remember that you can get an as-it-happens notification. TweetBeep likes to refer to itself as "Google Alerts for Twitter."

    Lyell
    @93octane
  • Alex Hillman · 1 year ago
    @Lyell E. Petersen: The difference is that this works with the twitter Direct Message API so that the notifications come in real time via SMS (if you have SMS for direct messages enabled). I could see the two services used in tandem, TweetTrak for things that I want as soon as they are posted, and TweetBeep for the stuff that I can check daily.

    Good stuff!