MultiTweet Development Blog
When one Twitter just isn't enough.
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Preparing to go into closed beta
In fact, after some consideration, weve decided to run the launch with a closed beta. This will give us a better opportunity to gauge how well the site scales as we add more users. We will be seeding beta invitations out to key users and the main Web 2.0 news channels. You can also register for an i ...
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Updates to MultiTweet: tinyURL support and performance improvement
Ive made a couple of changes to MultiTweet this afternoon which should improve the user experience. The first is that Ive reduced the time taken between posting a Twitter tweet and seeing it turn up in your TweetStream. It should now appear within 10 seconds. Secondly, Ive added automatic tinyURL en ...
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Ready for the public beta
The basic functionality of the Beta is now ready and over the next few days Ill be looking to announce the availability of MultiTweet.com on a number of news sites. I have plenty of ideas for more features, but the site that is there now is the core of what I envisioned when I started this project, ...
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jQuery performance
Im using jQuery to provide some nice interactive features for the website and had an interesting experience with performance over the past couple of days. I just added a feature whereby when you click on the avatar image of a tweet in the main list, the list is filtered to show only tweets from the ...
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IE 6 CSS woes
Its been a struggle but Ive finally got the main page layout to a point where it looks great in Firefox and Safari, and just about acceptable in IE6. CSS is such a pain in the ass. Most of the time you cannot express the intent of what you want. Instead, youre relying on side-effects and hacks all t ...
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The design is done
In the end I engaged a great designer, Hicham Kasbi, to put together the look for MultiTweet and Im really pleased at the result. Ill be applying the design to the site over the next week or so and then Ill be one step closer to a launch. As usual, it is IE which is giving me the most headaches, bu ...
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No longer looking for a graphic designer :-)
Update: I have had a large number of responses from this post and an ad I placed on freelancers.net so I am no longer looking for further replies. I need to engage a graphic designer who is well versed with Web2.0 to develop a look and logo for a new site I am working on. Initially this would be on ...
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MultiTweet - a micro-blog aggregator
I started developing MultiTweet after a friend asked how he could manage more than one twitter account easily. In order to post to multiple twitter accounts you need to be constantly logging out and back in as a different user. Twitter has a pretty good API so I put together a quick page that showe ...
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