4 posts tagged “twitter”
- Twitter direct messages should be a first class notification option on the settings page assuming a user has provided you with their twitter username and followed @crush3r. I seem to remember Dopplr's setup being a pretty good model. Most obvious example is getting direct messages when people reply to my invites.
- Twitter direct messages could also be used as a means of communication when you're away from the computer and need to know details of an upcoming party or interact with one.
- (off|on) - Silences or unsilences all Twitter notifications from Crush3r. That is, "off" should disable Twitter as a notifier for the user but keep the individual settings so that they can be restored.
- [un]mute [KEY] - Enables/disables notifications for the most proximate event or an event specified by KEY (described below).
- list - Returns a list of titles for the next three events that you've created or been invited to. Would probably need to send back three separate direct messages.
- info [KEY] - Returns title, time and location of an event
- link [KEY] - Returns a URL to an event invitation page
- creator [KEY] - Sends back info about the organizer of an event
- map [KEY] - Request for a link to the map for an event
- guests [KEY] - Sends a summary of the RSVPs for an event
- rsvp KEY RESPONSE - Enters your RSVP for an event specified by KEY (which is required here). RESPONSE could be, I don't know, yes, no, will try, be early, doubtful. You could match up the responses to the slider on the site but I'd hate to have to make people type those things as it would be prone to error. Maybe you could also accept values from -5 to 5 indicating least likely to most likely. d crush3r rsvp +5 would be simple and pretty awesome.
- comment KEY COMMENT - Adds the message COMMENT to the comment section of an event invitation specified by key (which is required here).
- The page ID that is contained in the URL (e.g. bsjwu2ksj in http://crush3r.com/page/bsjwu2ksj) (The most obvious yet least attractive option)
- The numeric index (1-based) representing the position of the event returned by the "list" command. So both "d crush3r info" and "d crush3r info 1" would send back info about the 1st event (i.e. the most proximate in chronology). "d crush3r info 2", the second, etc.
- A string which is contained (case insensitive as with everything) in one of the event names returned by the "list" command. The first invite (starting from first up to last) which matches is used so the string doesn't even have to be unique. If you have coming up (in order) "Jay's house party", "Jen's birthday" and "Book Reading at Kevin's house", you could use:
- d crush3r rsvp kevin +5
- d crush3r info birthday
- d crush3r guests house
- I want one of these. You probably do too.
- I'm kinda grooving on TextSnippets.com, but not enough to create an account. Yet...
- I'm currently listening to this because, while I won't argue that I'm also getting old, it's still damn great music.
- Me and the Mrs are in New York City for a week staying at an apartment on the Upper East side we found on VRBO. The apartment is so small that I reactivated my T-mobile Hotspot account and have bookmarked this page on my iPhone.
- I'm missing my steady stream of English Premier League matches. Football withdrawal...
- I miss my pup. I wish she'd post when we're out of town.
- I miss my passive presence monitoring system which seems to be having massive problems today. As much as I love Vox, this, apparently, is what it takes to make me post here these days[1]. We'll see what we can do to fix that.
[1] - A crossposter from Twitter to Vox would be interesting. Tweets with
comments could stop some of that insane broadcast @chat nonsense that
goes on.
Aww, someone was feeling old and cranky today.
Well, I think the biggest news of South-by-Southwest has been Twitter. If you haven't used it, the Obvious Corp product is a mix between IM, SMS and social networking. It's one of those services that you really have to use to fully get[1].
Having used it at home before SxSW (via IM, not SMS), I found that it really served to connect me (on a micro-update level) to all the people I cared about. It gives you a real sense of motion in life -- that others are out there just at your fingertips. But here at South-by-Southwest, especially at night out on the town, it has become the most incredible little social tool connecting hundreds of us together into a sort of mobile hivemind.
At any moment, you know where all of your friends are, where they're going, what they are doing and thinking. If you have a question, you can have an answer within seconds. If you need to find someone, the network is at your disposal. If someone says or does something embarrassing, the news can be immediately spread out amongst the entire group in a flash. Who wouldn't love this functionality?
I think what most surprised me is that Twitter hasn't annoyed the crap out of me. The fact that I actually love it[2] and have come to depend on it here in Austin really blows me away.
[1] - If you sign up and I know you, you can add me, but if I don't know you, don't bother. I do like to keep my Twitters private. Yes, the privacy feature is very good.
[2] - With one or two exceptions. First, Twitter sucks down juice like donors at a blood drive. I've never seen more dead cell phones at the end of the night ever. I've been tempted to go buy and carry a scond battery just to support my habit. Secondly, the use of the @USERNAME to indicate that you're Twittering to someone specific. Twitter provides the 'd' option to message someone privately but unfortunately far too many Twitter users refuse to do so often because they want everyone to know how clever they are. Some people are just downright annoying in their use of it. If this describes you, please take your fucking conversations offline because -- back to my first point -- no one's cell phone has enough battery life to support your need for recognition and acceptance.
