Mm might try this on my own blog posts.

Don’t let anyone tell you that relationships can’t be formed on 140 characters. I am humbled that Musey took the time out to even contemplate sticking my mug into this site. The video made me cry knowing that someone took time out to think about me.

A huge raft of improvements in functionality. A brand new API monitor that looks at each of your columns you have open, my poor iPhone picture below.

The amount of media that can be played or viewed from directly within TweetDeck has increased, most notably YouTube. The image below shows you some of the new features within TweetDeck.

I have always loved the ability to use 12Seconds from within TweetDeck.

There is still the ability to monitor and post to your Facebook. You can also keep track on your MySpace and LinkedIn.

The only improvement I would love to see in TweetDeck would be the ability to collapse the columns.

Go play with TweetDeck, there are loads of hidden features that I have not touched on. You can find TweetDeck here. I did notice this version of TweetDeck seems quicker. This must be due to the new way it interacts with the Twitter API.

New video below on all the new functions of TweetDeck.

The HUGE TweetDeck changelog below:

FIXED: bitly.tv links get autoshortened
IMPROVED: The download size of the app is now 2.0MB from 2.7MB
UPDATED: The Tweet Panel is now locked whilst a tweet is sending
FIXED: Double byte characters (eg Chinese, Japanese) not working in the search box.
FIXED: Character count sometimes not shown
FIXED: Clicking the ‘You are now following’ message downloads an old version of TD
UPDATED: Using reply all, the person you are replying to is now always first
FIXED: Long search column names in dialog boxes hide some buttons
FIXED: YFrog images don’t take notice of the ‘Open in browser’ option
FIXED: App doesn’t take focus when clicking on the sys tray icon
ADDED: Show full size profile pic when clicking on smaller version in profile panel
UPDATED: Show ‘Add To Group’ at bottom of profile panel regardless of whether we’re following person or not
UPDATED: Multiple monitor support improved massively
ADDED: Allow TweetDeck to be used in fullscreen mode (F11 in Windows only)
UPDATED: Escape now closes image preview windows
FIXED: Tweet Panel account labels are not updated when twitter username changes
ADDED: Add UT: to the prefixes we strip off of location in the profile panel
FIXED: Minimise during image preview causes problems
FIXED: TD recognising # within a URL as a hashtag
FIXED: We should now be recognising a wider range of URLs, hashtags, and mentions correctly. I
UPDATED: Clearer display of error messages
CHANGED: Now using oAuth calls behind the scenes to take advantage of increased API limit
CHANGED: URLs with ” immediately after aren’t linkified.
FIXED: Red background remains after URL shortening
ADDED: Add “retweeted by me” into stream on app start
FIXED: After TweetShrink/translate operation, red background disappears even if > 140
CHANGED: Remember tweet panel state on app restart
ADDED: In-app preview of YouTube, Mobypicture, Twitgoo, Posterous & Flickr media
ADDED: Upload to Mobypicture image sharing service
FIXED: On initial startup, clicking reply, RT etc does not place cursor in update box
FIXED: LinkedIn profile pictures not being shown
CHANGED: Moved Twitter library to use oAuth
FIXED: Translating a tweet renders links inactive
FIXED: Translate only works in one direction
ADDED: Column navigator at bottom of screen
ADDED: Option to “Allow TweetDeck to manage my API limit” which uses intelligent algorithms to control and manage your API limit
CHANGED: Twitter API-specific settings moved to new “Twitter Updates” tab under Settings
ADDED: Ability to edit search terms for Search columns
ADDED: Ability to add search columns for searches stored on Twitter.com as well as TweetDeck
CHANGED: Links are now clickable without the http:// prefix
FIXED: Clicking ‘Close’ in autocomplete should have same effect as pressing ‘Esc’
CHANGED: Email addresses in updates are now linkified. Click the link to open a new message in your default email client
FIXED: Notifications appearing newest-oldest rather than oldest-newest
FIXED: Tweets in profile panels do not show geo-location pins
CHANGED: Resetting your twitter password in TD will now force a refresh all columns
FIXED: Improvements in LinkedIn API handling

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Well the final one was not what I originally had planned or had originally filmed.

The video below explains. I hope you enjoy the final video.

Feel free to comment on any of the videos

With that in mind I thought I would interview myself:

Have you learned anything new about yourself? No.

Have you changed? Yes.

Are you going to tell the nice people how you have changed? No, it is a personal thing. Let’s just say I am more human.

Do you enjoy Twitter? When it works, yes. I did not like it when they changed the @reply system and I still do not like the lack of seeing all conversations.

How would you make Twitter better? I would invest in the stability of the product before prettying up the site. Functionality is more important than looks in this case.

Are you selling anything on Twitter? No

Well if you are not selling anything why are you using Twitter? I am using Twitter to converse with folk and learn from them. I originally just wanted to use Twitter in a professional way, just for my IT tech stuff. You know ask IT related questions and share ideas. But that soon became secondary. Why? Well I enjoyed the conversations more than the geekery. Connecting with another human half way across the world is awesome. Connecting with a person halfway across the world and sharing the same ideas and views or debating even more awesome.

Do you think you will be on Twitter in 5 years time? Not to the extent I am these days. I may use other products that feed into Twitter but I am not sure. Those who know me know I have a constant struggle balancing the online offline stuff. I really should unhook more and go off and exercise. Also the benefit of unhooking means when you return you have something to talk about. So my future plans for me and Twitter are up in the air. I could leave tomorrow and not come back, who knows.

What was your first Twitter Avavtar? This one (pictured below)

What is your current Twitter Avatar? This one (pictured below) I changed it from red to yellow because I think it looks cleaner.

I just want to say a big thank you to those who have put up with me. I know earlier in the year I had lots of ups and downs, there were reasons for that and those reasons were in an earlier blog post called “Hell” I think I have seen the back of that now.

I am also really excited to be working with Steph on doodurls without Twitter we would never have met. So thank you Twitter for that.

But I really mean it thank you to all those who still follow, I hate the term follow so I shall say a huge thank you to those who have remained my friend through this year that I have been on Twitter. You do mean a great deal to me.

Why did you not vlog this? I did not vlog this as my first blog was a written one so it seemed fitting that this one should be.

So everybody jumped onto FaceBook and guess what? yup Facebook failed to step up to the mark.

These are big social networks and one would think they would be investing the money into stability. Twitter just seems to be prettying itself and well FaceBook no idea on that one.

Twitter Status at time of writing.

Update:

Twitter was down due to a denial of service attack.

But the really sad thing about this is that Sky News had Twitter being down on it’s news ticker as breaking news.

Is your use of Twitter Facebook and other social networks impacting on your blogging?

Have a real think about it and if you decide to answer, answer honestly. You never know you may discover something about yourself.

Do you blog more or do you blog less?

This post also was a test of the Zemanta system

Managed to over complicate what is in effect a simple process. The display is confusing at first, and takes some getting used to.

Multiple accounts, Tweetie handles multiple accounts much better. As for functionality Twiittelator Pro is still by far the most feature rich Twitter app for the iPhone.

On the plus side TweetDeck is free. But as I say, cluttered user interface really put me off. Remember this is a personal view, some people will love TweetDeck for iPhone, I am not one of those people.

We’ve updated the Notices section of Settings to better reflect how folks are using Twitter regarding replies. Based on usage patterns and feedback, we’ve learned most people want to see when someone they follow replies to another person they follow—it’s a good way to stay in the loop. However, receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don’t follow in your timeline is undesirable. Today’s update removes this undesirable and confusing option.

Source: Twitter Blog

Basically when someone you follow @replies to someone you do not follow you will not see that @reply.

This strikes me as bonkers. Most of us have seen someone @reply to a person we are not following. This has then sparked our interest we have gone off and looked at both sides of the conversation. We then get involved by adding our opinion, then we all start following each other. There is a description for that, oops wait, wait its on the tip of my tongue, oh yes Social Networking

Twitter to me these days seems like more of a social experiment than a social network. Every time something like this happens I imagine Twitter founding fathers whacked out on JD staggering round saying stuff like “Let’s see if the Twitter users will put up with this shit” then they go off and implement a very unsocial function.

I don’t know what Twitter are trying to achieve. I wish they would explain clearer in their blogs what they are doing.

< insert here picture of a blue bird a gun and a very injured foot >

The work around: If you are not a fan of the current @reply system all you have to do is add a character before any @reply you do. Example “H @ernmander”

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