Comments on: 3rd party apps must make up for Twitter’s incompetence http://www.degutis.com/blog/3rd-party-apps-twitters-incompetence/ rambling, rambling, rambling Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Tweetake the Twitter backer upper | Degutis Insights http://www.degutis.com/blog/3rd-party-apps-twitters-incompetence/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Tweetake the Twitter backer upper | Degutis Insights Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:40:44 +0000 http://www.degutis.com/blog/?p=118#comment-53 [...] Twitter encountered (created?) a problem that in some cases decimated people’s followers, I suggested that third parties need to take steps to cover Twitter’s arse.  Today I became aware of Tweetake which will backup your Twitter account to an Excel file.  As [...] [...] Twitter encountered (created?) a problem that in some cases decimated people’s followers, I suggested that third parties need to take steps to cover Twitter’s arse.  Today I became aware of Tweetake which will backup your Twitter account to an Excel file.  As [...]

]]> By: Svetlana Gladkova http://www.degutis.com/blog/3rd-party-apps-twitters-incompetence/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Svetlana Gladkova Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:29:43 +0000 http://www.degutis.com/blog/?p=118#comment-264 Now I see your point with third-party apps making up for Twitter incompetence. Sure, backup of our data could be a great addition to the services we already use as Twitter clients and I also expect to see some other backup apps intended solely to back up the followers in the nearest few days. But the problem is that they won'tsolve the core problem of Twitter instability - even if you have a backup, you can still import it Twitter only while a better option would be to be able to export the data to other substitute services. Now I see your point with third-party apps making up for Twitter incompetence. Sure, backup of our data could be a great addition to the services we already use as Twitter clients and I also expect to see some other backup apps intended solely to back up the followers in the nearest few days. But the problem is that they won'tsolve the core problem of Twitter instability – even if you have a backup, you can still import it Twitter only while a better option would be to be able to export the data to other substitute services.

]]> By: Svetlana Gladkova http://www.degutis.com/blog/3rd-party-apps-twitters-incompetence/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Svetlana Gladkova Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:29:43 +0000 http://www.degutis.com/blog/?p=118#comment-145 Now I see your point with third-party apps making up for Twitter incompetence. Sure, backup of our data could be a great addition to the services we already use as Twitter clients and I also expect to see some other backup apps intended solely to back up the followers in the nearest few days. But the problem is that they won'tsolve the core problem of Twitter instability - even if you have a backup, you can still import it Twitter only while a better option would be to be able to export the data to other substitute services. Now I see your point with third-party apps making up for Twitter incompetence. Sure, backup of our data could be a great addition to the services we already use as Twitter clients and I also expect to see some other backup apps intended solely to back up the followers in the nearest few days. But the problem is that they won'tsolve the core problem of Twitter instability – even if you have a backup, you can still import it Twitter only while a better option would be to be able to export the data to other substitute services.

]]> By: Svetlana Gladkova http://www.degutis.com/blog/3rd-party-apps-twitters-incompetence/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Svetlana Gladkova Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:29:43 +0000 http://www.degutis.com/blog/?p=118#comment-133 Now I see your point with third-party apps making up for Twitter incompetence. Sure, backup of our data could be a great addition to the services we already use as Twitter clients and I also expect to see some other backup apps intended solely to back up the followers in the nearest few days. But the problem is that they won'tsolve the core problem of Twitter instability - even if you have a backup, you can still import it Twitter only while a better option would be to be able to export the data to other substitute services. Now I see your point with third-party apps making up for Twitter incompetence. Sure, backup of our data could be a great addition to the services we already use as Twitter clients and I also expect to see some other backup apps intended solely to back up the followers in the nearest few days. But the problem is that they won'tsolve the core problem of Twitter instability – even if you have a backup, you can still import it Twitter only while a better option would be to be able to export the data to other substitute services.

]]> By: Iain Dodsworth http://www.degutis.com/blog/3rd-party-apps-twitters-incompetence/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Iain Dodsworth Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:03:42 +0000 http://www.degutis.com/blog/?p=118#comment-132 TweetDeck also keeps the list of followers in the same database, which is fully accessible offline. A number of people have been using it to recreate their following list before Twitter gets round to fixing it e.g. <a href="http://twitter.com/erasrhed42/statuses/867368520">http://twitter.com/erasrhed42/statuses/867368520</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/abelara/statuses/867307568">http://twitter.com/abelara/statuses/867307568</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/KevinHazzard/statuses/867494783">http://twitter.com/KevinHazzard/statuses/867494783</a><br><br>You're post makes a great point about how twitter app developers have to add more value than most just to deal with twitter outages and API inconsistencies. I do wonder how long this good will from developers can last. TweetDeck also keeps the list of followers in the same database, which is fully accessible offline. A number of people have been using it to recreate their following list before Twitter gets round to fixing it e.g. http://twitter.com/erasrhed42/statuses/867368520 http://twitter.com/abelara/statuses/867307568 http://twitter.com/KevinHazzard/statuses/867494783

You're post makes a great point about how twitter app developers have to add more value than most just to deal with twitter outages and API inconsistencies. I do wonder how long this good will from developers can last.

]]> By: sdegutis http://www.degutis.com/blog/3rd-party-apps-twitters-incompetence/comment-page-1/#comment-131 sdegutis Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:24:19 +0000 http://www.degutis.com/blog/?p=118#comment-131 Sounds pretty trivial for a Cocoa programming to do this kind of thing, especially with <a href="http://mattgemmell.com/2008/02/22/mgtwitterengine-twitter-from-cocoa">this Twitter class</a> from a friend. I think I might actually be up to the challenge in the next few months, if I get any spare time. Sounds pretty trivial for a Cocoa programming to do this kind of thing, especially with this Twitter class from a friend. I think I might actually be up to the challenge in the next few months, if I get any spare time.

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