twitter

Another stealth upgrade brings Twitter bios to the People Hub

May 18, 2012 | By Surur

WPCentral has noticed that Microsoft has performed another tweak in the Windows Live back-end which now brings Twitter bios to the profiles in the People’s hub.

Twitter bios are the small snippets of text which describe the owner of the twitter account, and Microsoft makes good use of the Notes field to slot the data in.

The update follows Microsoft enabling off-line Facebook Messaging, a long requested feature, and again demonstrated that Microsoft can continue to provide new features to Windows Phone by developing cloud features without needing to upgrade the software on the phone in any way.

The Windows Live back-end will soon have a name change, but at the same time move to becoming a fundamental part of not only Windows Phone, but also Windows 8.

Via WPCentral.com

3

Mehdoh 2.0 features demoed on video

May 12, 2012 | By Surur

The developer of Mehdoh have uploaded this video showing the features of the 2.0 version of the twitter client.

Mehdoh version 2.0 features amongst others twitter lists support. The app is expected to hit Marketplace shortly.

4

No More "WindowsLive" On Twitter, Say Hello To "via Microsoft"

May 10, 2012 | By UVSoaked

[IMG]

Now when you tweet on your Windows Phone, it will say "via Microsoft" (which links to www.microsoft.com) which it previously said "via WindowsLive".

The move marks another part of the demise of the Windows Live brand, and Microsoft moves to integrating the Microsoft Account closer with Windows 8 and of course Windows Phone 8.

How do our readers feel about having the Microsoft brand so closely associated with your tweets? Let us know below.

Via Metropowered.com

14

Twitter Windows Phone web app finally gets updated.. to the feature phone version

May 7, 2012 | By Surur

We have had our ups and downs with the mobile twitter page on Windows Phone, with the company’s servers recently performing pretty poorly when it came to delivering the page properly to Windows Phone browsers.

It seems Twitter finally managed to fix things, but it seems mainly by serving Windows Phone with the same page it does its feature phones.

This compares to the iPhone web app, which features pull to refresh and other advanced desktop features.

I guess we know what Twitter thinks of Windows Phone…

Picture Credit: Romit

Thanks Fahd for the tip.

18

Short SkyDrive URLs for twitter now live

April 17, 2012 | By Surur

The SkyDrive team has announced that short URLs for twitter for files stored on SkyDrive is now enabled.

The long SkyDrive URL (e.g https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=20F065AFC1ACDB2E!1258&cid=20f065afc1acdb2e ) will now be shortened to the much more palatable sdrv.ms/Ijozyj for pictures shared to twitter via Windows Phone.

Unfortunately pictures shared to SkyDrive will still not benefit from the preview feature on the Twitter web interface, a feature we suggests Microsoft tackle with Twitter next.

Other new SkyDrive features are support for .ODF (open document format), 300 MB file uploads via the browser and Share to Twitter from SkyDrive, with the promise of “more really big things to come soon.”

2

Twitter fix Mobile Twitter CSS bug for Windows Phone

April 10, 2012 | By Surur

After about 3 months of looking at a WAP-like mobile twitter web page, if seems our article from 2 days ago, provoked by Joshua Topolsky’s uninformed rant about the quality of IE9 Mobile, did generate some results.

A few hours ago we were contacted by Michael Ducker, Product Manager for Mobile Web at Twitter, asking about the issue. We explained what we knew of the CSS files having the incorrect MIME type, contrary to HTML standards, and it seems not long after all the problems have been fixed, as the page it now rendering properly not only on IE9 desktop but also in the mobile browser.

In the last article on the issue many readers seemed to be under the impression that problems with web sites was due to the browser rendering engine. The simple fact is that many websites have not been tested on Windows Phone, which may in fact reveal errors in their coding. Before blaming rendering issues on the browser, it may be useful for web developers to look at their own implementations first.

Of course we wish to extend our thanks to Mr Ducker for fixing this issue, and we hope he makes at least cursory testing on Windows Phone part of his routine in the future.

21

Twitter replacement Weibo will integrate with Windows Live in China (screen shot)

February 19, 2012 | By Surur

We heard yesterday that Tango smartphones in China will replace Twitter with Weibo, the local micro blogging service.

Now LiveSide.net managed to get screen shots of the Windows Live connection screen between Windows Live and Weibo, suggesting the service will offer much of the same features as Twitter. It also suggests the one network which will be in common between all of these regions will be Windows Live, which we have become used to not think of as a social network, but which does of course have many of the features, if Microsoft bothered to promote them.

Carbon for WP will have cool Retweet gesture

February 14, 2012 | By Surur

The Carbon team have teased a new feature which will show up in version 1.2, to be submitted to marketplace shortly.

The feature, QuoteTap, allows one to easily retweet a tweet, and joins there double tap to reply gesture.

Version 1.1 is currently in Marketplace without a free trial but version 1.2 should have this feature, meaning you can try it out for yourself soon.

5

Video review of Carbon twitter client for Windows Phone 7

February 14, 2012 | By Surur

The Nokia Blog have posted this brief video review of the new Carbon twitter client for Windows Phone 7.

The app has the Windows Phone 7 world on fire, despite being a pricy $1.99 without a free trial (coming in the next version).

carbonqr The app features:

Full inline Pictures on the Timeline(needs to be enabled from settings)
Double Tap on tweets for quickly replying to tweets without the need to leave timelines
Quickline: A swiss army timeline for accessing all kinds of timelines from Lists, Retweets, Saved Searches.
Live Ties for every account, pinnable to the Home Screen with Mentions & Direct Messages background checks
Compose Tile, pinning a compose tile on the Home Screen for a speedy tweet composition
Search Tiles, pin a #hashtag or keywords to your home screen for quick access to a search timeline
Threaded Direct Messages View
And of course, Bit.ly Pro URL shortening, Read Later support(Instapaper & Read It Later) and a lot more…

Find Carbon in your Marketplace here.

Via The Nokia Blog

4

Carbon Twitter client for WP7 finally in Marketplace

February 12, 2012 | By Surur

After a very long wait, the Carbon twitter app, ex-webOS, has now arrived on Windows Phone 7. The app places a great emphasis on efficiency and speed, with extensive use of secondary tiles so you can hop directly to the part of the application you wish to use, e.g. your time line or posting a tweet.

The app features:

Full inline Pictures on the Timeline(needs to be enabled from settings)
Double Tap on tweets for quickly replying to tweets without the need to leave timelines
Quickline: A swiss army timeline for accessing all kinds of timelines from Lists, Retweets, Saved Searches.
Live Ties for every account, pinnable to the Home Screen with Mentions & Direct Messages background checks
Compose Tile, pinning a compose tile on the Home Screen for a speedy tweet composition
Search Tiles, pin a #hashtag or keywords to your home screen for quick access to a search timeline
Threaded Direct Messages View
And of course, Bit.ly Pro URL shortening, Read Later support(Instapaper & Read It Later) and a lot more…

carbonqr The developers dot1ne are planning to add push notifications soon, as well as expand the number of image uploading services supported.

The current version is an expensive £1.49 without a free trial, but version 1.2 will also support this feature.

Find Carbon in your Marketplace here.

13

Carbon twitter client finally certified, coming to Marketplace soon

February 10, 2012 | By Surur

carbonwp-mentions Several months after the Carbon team started porting their app to Windows Phone 7, and after the team nearly gave up bringing their app to Windows Phone 7, the Carbon twitter client for Windows Phone 7 has finally been approved for certification, and should be hitting Marketplace by Monday.

The app, which is being ported from WebOS claims to be not an app, but an experience that covers all of the Twitter in one screen.

The one screen will give you access to all of your Tweets and Time Lines, from Timeline to Mentions and Direct Messages, and Retweets to your Saved Searches and Lists here, from here & Trends to Search Your own Profile, all on one screen without drilling down and keeping on pressing back and tapered.

The app features:

Unique signature "Carbon" UI & Design.
Quick Line (Swiss Army Timeline Timeline for all your browsing)
Threaded Direct Messages
Timeline Tweet Indicators (Icons for Media & Tweet Entities)
Hi-Res Image Image Previews for almost every service That directly supports previews
Video Previews
View Retweeters
Compose Tile
Search / Hashtag Tile
Background Updates: Notifications & Live Tiles
Quick Reply Gesture (double-tap)
Quick Actions Gesture (tap + hold)
Tweet From, let’s you choose All which account to Tweet from if you have more than one account
Three different styles for Quoting Tweets. RT "Quotes", and via @ username
Internal Browser (Could use IE if set in Preferences)
Image Upload to NATIVE Twitter, Twitpic, and YFrog
URL Shortening: Twitter, Bit.ly, Bit.ly Pro, and Goo.gl
Read Later: Instapaper & Read It Later
Translate Tweets
Copy Tweets, Tweets Share by Email or SMS
Go To Tweep, to go directly to a user’s profile
Username autocomplete on Compose Screen

See screen shots of the app here.

Via WP7.nl

15

Twitter updates on Me tile broken since Thursday? [UPDATE]

January 15, 2012 | By Liwen Guo

Update January 16, 19:00 UTC: Everything seems to be working again.

Many people have been complaining on Twitter that the Me tile stopped updating since Thursday, with no new @mentions showing up on the Live Tile or in the notifications tab. The same has been happening for me, with the last update appearing on the evening of Wednesday (UTC+1).

Is anybody else experiencing the same problem?

25

Twitpics now show up in the WP7 What’s New People Hub

December 4, 2011 | By Surur

It seems Microsoft did some behind the scenes magic and is now finally able to recognize pictures in twitter feeds in the People Hub, just like it recognizes pictures from Facebook.

Often, but not in all cases, given how diverse the picture services used on twitter is, the picture will show up with the tweet in the What’s New feed. The picture may also show up in the Pictures Hub.

The development underlines how much of the services on Windows Phone is a collaboration between software on the phone and in the cloud, and hopefully we will see further improvements without actually having to update our phones.

Via LiveSide and Pocketnow.com

4