What about adding identica support ?
I don't use Twitter because I love freedom. However, unimaginative, Luddite friends of mine do and swear by your Tweetie application.
As identica. implements a Twitter compatible API, why don't you add support for identica ?
http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/TwitterCom...
Identi.ca folk would get another iTouch/iPhone client and you would make millions (of cents).
As identica. implements a Twitter compatible API, why don't you add support for identica ?
http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/TwitterCom...
Identi.ca folk would get another iTouch/iPhone client and you would make millions (of cents).
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Identi.ca is now "unofficially" supported in Tweetie 2 (see thread for details). There are issues with user-id and username collisions between services though. If you *only* input Twitter accounts, or *only* identi.ca accounts, it should work fine. Once you mix and match, you may see weird things.
I’m working on it
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Inappropriate?I'm not opposed to this - but it would add *yet* another permutation that I would need to test against and support.
Picture uploading would be flat-out broken, as the services in Tweetie authenticate against twitter explicitly.
How many identica users are there? And how many of these freedom-loving non-luddite hippie anarchists even bother paying for my software :)?
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?Can I be honest here ? I use identica and have bought Latwit which satisfies all my needs for just £1.79.
Confession time: I have one friend who loves Tweetie and would like to see it available for identi.ca but I can't even promise he would shell out. -
Inappropriate?I don't know about yfrog, but Mobypic does not rely on Twitter credentials, does it? I am not going to pretend that I know how it works. But I'd guess you can disable the incompatible service depending on the account "type"?
Tweetie is a great app, and I am *not* saying that just to suck up. If you'd consider adding support to other services, It would not cost you any customers, but it would gain you new ones. Don't you think?
I’m optimistic
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Inappropriate?A Tweetie that supported laconi.ca/identi.ca is a Tweetie folks like Leo Laporte with his army.twit.tv could get behind! ;)
I’m excited
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Inappropriate?Adding identica support is trivial in theory, not so much in practice. I would need to special case bits of the UI, and the more time I spend doing that the less time I spend adding value for people who have already purchased Tweetie.
I love Twitter. Everyone I know loves Twitter. The way I see it, all but a handful of people use Twitter. Again, I'm not opposed to it, but it's more work than just changing the api root unless I were to just half-ass it (which I'm not going to do).
I'm not sure it's worth it – the number of users just might not support the investment in testing and support.
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?It's not that you'd remove the Twitter support! :)
identi.ca being a free platform does not mean that all of their users live only on open-source and free-as-in-beer applications/services. I'd imagine there is a significant number of potential Tweetie customers inside identi.ca. Especially that it is practically an untapped market for iPhone native clients (forget LaTwit, it's.....).
There's also people who run Laconica on their own servers for themselves and their "followers" (Like, as edythemighty pointed out, Leo Laporte for example).
Then again, I did not study the "market". And I am not guaranteeing the it's going to worth it, I am just saying that I think you underestimate the potential
I’m still optimistic
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Inappropriate?You certainly could be right. Identica support has technically been on my todo list for a few versions now, and if I run out of other stuff to do, I'll do it.
But there is a *ton* of stuff above it on the list. (mind-blowing, crap-your-pants-amazing stuff). Keep getting people to bug me. If enough people bug me, it's probably representative of the larger market. But as of today I can count the number of people who have asked for identica support on two hands :P
I’m unsure
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Inappropriate?Fair enough.
I sure hope no new popularity enhancer are in that list! :P
I’m forever optimistic
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Inappropriate?I'm bugging you now. I just started my indenti.ca account today and won't be going back to twitter full-time I don't think. Of course, I'm an open-source loving anarchist as well :D
I've heard great things about tweetie (sorry for now I use twitterfon) but I for one would go ahead and purchase your app if you added the support. And besides, getting Leo Laporte to mention you a few times on twit couldn't be bad for sales! -
Inappropriate?I'd really like identi.ca support, and I've got at least 6 coworkers who use identi.ca a lot and have iPhones.
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Inappropriate?I'm seeing an increasing number of people transitioning from twitter to identi.ca. If tweetie could integrate with that service (and ditto for the macosx version, which would thus give it an edge over the competition (nambu etc) I could ditch my alternative clients and stick to a single platform.
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Inappropriate?I bought Tweetie because it looked like the best Twitter client. For me it is. It does everything I need without getting in my way. Now more and more people around me are switching to laconi.ca. I consider the switch, too. I would love to continue using tweetie instead of writing off the money and buying twittelator.
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?As a freedom loving anarco cynic I gotta say, I don't know why you'd want to leave the awesome party that is Twitter...
I’m kidding
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For another freedom loving anarco cynic that is me, it's because twitter is slowly turning into an e-hollywood after finising up as an e-web-marketing-gurus-stalk-domain :P
Seriously though, not only people are moving to laconi.ca's product because of another service (identi.ca). But mainly because they now can run their own identi.ca on their own servers. Let it be for their use only or for their teams, families, buddies and/or fans, It'd be super cool if they could use the one decent twitter app to update their own micro-blog from their own iDevice. Nicely and Easily. -
@dmondark - re: running your own server is the strongest argument I've seen yet. I want to support Twitter, and don't particularly like the idea of promoting copycat services, but if it's a do-it-yourself mini microblogging service, that I approve of.
At the same time, the fact that you see Twitter turning into an e-hollywood cesspool of inanity is a non-issue unless one *chooses* to follow certain vapid, uninteresting people :). That's the beauty of twitter - you choose what you see. (And yes, I know you were only half-joking). -
I would not leave twitter. Just use laconi.ca because of the people I joined twitter for and forward my tweets to twitter. Tweeties multi-account basis is something really handy for that. -
@atebits Although I don't necessarily agree, I do see your point. And to be honest, I don't personally plan to start my own microblogging site, but a lot are moving towards doing that. Naturally, supporting personal laconi.ca installations would require the users to be able to manually enter their own API URLs, thus they can still use identi.ca since it's just another laconi.ca installation. But you already knew that :) -
Inappropriate?@ashponders @atebits I'm a developer working on Laconica. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help you get Tweetie working with Identi.ca/Laconica.
Identi.ca has ~ 50K users, but if you include the entire OpenMicroBlogging network, the user base is much larger and includes big sites like bleeper.de and army.twit.tv.
I’m good to go!
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Inappropriate?I want to buy Tweetie. It's really sexy, but I can't justify paying for it if I have to run another application to follow my identi.ca chums. Look at gwibber for an example of how to support both (I know you have more features, but they do what they do well)
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?the really powerful thing is the coming status.net from identica/laconica ... my company uses a private install of laconica for internal project management; status.net is going to allow anyone -- a company, an online community etc -- to have their own "twitter," which changes the game I think.
I've paid for tweetie, but still need an identica compatible client ... so add my voice to the supporters. -
Inappropriate?I almost hit the buy button. But then I read the feature list again and I saw there is no Laconica support. Yes, I am currently using Twitter, but I'm planning to switch. I payed for the crappy LaTwit just because it had Laconica support, but its horrible UI is unbearable, so I'm sticking with TwitterFon and Twitter for now.
I’m frustrated
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Try Nambu for iPhone. I'm using it temporarily until Tweetie supports identi.ca. Nambu is sluggish at best, but it supports both Twitter and Identi.ca. But, Once Tweetie supports identi.ca, then I'm going to back to using Tweetie. I bought it a few months back, and like it a lot... -
Inappropriate?LaTwit, Nambu or Twittelator are not enough. Tweetie is the best Twitter client out there, and when it will support identi.ca/Laconica, it will be the best for it too. Please do it quickly.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?My employer runs Laconica on a server for internal use. I would love it if Tweetie supported it. (And then one could also use it with http://identi.ca/.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Add Laconica support.
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?I'd pay for Tweetie too if it supports Laconi.ca. Right now the only thing that also keeps me from switching from Twitterrifc to Tweetie is a missing slim down view and (don't laugh) the chirping sound :)
I’m hopeful
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Growl can trigger audio, check out http://growl.info for more, uh, info. -
Nice idea - thanks. So the chirping is solved. What's next? Greasemonkey for Cocoa? :P -
tweetie is signed, otherwise you could hexedit the bajesus out of it to slim it down, heh. -
Inappropriate?The best alternative to Tweetie on the iPhone would most likely be LaTwit. Between the two, I much prefer Tweetie, however unfortunately, it does not support identi.ca. LaTwit does so using the identi.ca API, and I'm sure Tweetie would very much benefit from supporting it as well!
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Support for identi.ca.
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?I think it's been said before, but I'll say it again: we really love Tweetie, we're excited by Tweetie's active and passionate user community, and we'd love to see the client support Identi.ca and other Laconica sites.
Many clients have been able to get working versions of their software with only a few lines of code change. We have a very compatible API that makes supporting both systems easy.
Let's make this happen!
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?+1 for this.. would be great both for identi.ca and managing private laconi.ca installs (particularly for project management, team communication, NPOs, student groups, etc.)
I’m hopeful
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Inappropriate?I'd like to see Identi.ca support but it is very low on my Tweetie wishlist.
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Inappropriate?I use both Twitter and Yammer (for work) and it would be awesome to have Tweetie able to support Yammer as well, I understand the API is 90% the same than Twitter, so it should not be a big effort but tremendously rewarding for Yammer users!
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Make Tweetie work with Yammer as well.
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?I bought tweetie for iphone, and using the desktop app - with ads. The Moment laconica/identica support is added, you have my 20 bucks.
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?Please support other micro-blog service based on status.net (laconi.ca)
e.g. : identi.ca
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Please support other micro-blog service.
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?identi.ca has twitter API support so code changes and testing is minimal!
I’m hopefull
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Inappropriate?Looking at the features of v2.0 I see "Specify custom API roots on a per-account basis" With status.net having a twitter-compatible api does that mean tweetie now has (unofficial) support for status.net server?! If so this will be an instant buy for me
To elaborate: 99% of the time a twitter application will work just by changing the api root from http://twitter.com/ to http://identi.ca/api/ and in theory most things will work
I’m hopefull
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I've just been thinking the same thing, and digging around inthe tweetie V2.0 help file I notice it states
"You could leverage this to use alternative microblogging services with Tweetie, though this feature is not yet "officially" supported and may not work as expected."
I guess I'll be hitting buy... -
Inappropriate?I bit the bullet and bought it. I can confirm it works just fine at least for checking the timeline and posting.
When you add account there's a gear in lower right. Hit that and I made both the api root and search root https://identi.ca/api and it works! great news. Note there's a big warning about it not being officially supported but the basics seem to be working. So far only thing I've found that doesn't work is the trends when you go to search. The search function works though.
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?I've had a problem with this. Both my twitter and identi.ca usernames are the same but use a different password. When I set up identi.ca, it works fine; however, when I return to the twitter account I can't refresh the twitter stream. I get an "Unauthorized. Coul..." error messages (see attached image).
I'm assuming the identi.ca credentials have somehow overwritten the twitter credentials because I'm using the same username for both?
I know this isn't officially supported, but this seems a bit odd to me.
I’m slighly perplexed.
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I've just had exactly the same happen to me. I deleted my Twitter account, and re-added it, which re-enabled Twitter, but caused this problem in identi.ca. I'm guessing that the credentials are keyed on the username, when ideally they would be keyed on both username and api path -
That explains why I didn't run into the problem. I'm using the same password for both services. Although I have been diversifying my passwords so I'll make sure to not touch identi.ca and twitter till this gets patched -
Inappropriate?MatStace. Thanks for confirming that. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one that was having this problem.
I had the same experience. Deleting and re-adding the twitter account fixed twitter but broke identi.ca.
It does seem that the credentials are keyed to the username.
(I should add that I'm still going to use Tweetie 2, because the interface is such a pleasure to use.)
I’m still a bit perplexed
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Inappropriate?Identi.ca is now "unofficially" supported in Tweetie 2 (see thread for details). There are issues with user-id and username collisions between services though. If you *only* input Twitter accounts, or *only* identi.ca accounts, it should work fine. Once you mix and match, you may see weird things.
I’m working on it
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"I'm working on it"
Awesome! Once the user-id & username collision problem is solved, I'll be a very very happy customer. (Even happier once the black theme is back in Tweetie 2, but that's another thread..) ;) -
We've had lots of positive feedback on this. Let us know if there's anything you need to improve support for StatusNet. -
Inappropriate?Thanks for the quick response, and for confirming that this is a twitter / identi.ca username collision.
Thanks for adding identi.ca support. It's definitely appreciated, even if it's unofficial for the moment.
Can't wait to see a fix for this, though I'm sure you have quite a bit on your plate at the moment.
Finally, thanks for creating Tweetie 2. I can't remember the last time I had this much fun with an application. It was probably Peggle.
I’m looking forward to a fix
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Inappropriate?Twitter is the mainstream microblogging site, which Tweetie was developed for, hence the "Tweet" in Tweetie.
Only a handful of anti-closed-source Linux hippies use Identica. I don't really see the point in wasting resources supporting it.
I’m half-serious-half-kidding
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Half-kidding or not, there's no valid point that warrants calling people names just because they're not using the services you do. Or rather, because they're using the services you clearly don't like.
People who commented here showing their support for the feature are Tweetie at least customers if not fans. I think folks at atebits understood that, hence adding support in Tweetie 2. -
I agree with dmondark.
I'll also point out that StatusNet (formerly Laconica) is used by many companies for internal microblogging services (because it's open source). -
I should clarify that I'm certainly not against open sourced software or Linux (I make extensive use of Linux servers, WordPress, etc). But I don't really like the attitude a lot of Identica/Laconica users have about "closed source" solutions. (I can't say I like having microblogging splintered into scores of identical services either.) I'm okay with StatusNet support, as long as it's not to the detriment of Tweetie, be it in code bloat, extra interface options, or added development time.
I suppose you have a good point, Daryl, about companies using StatusNet for internal microblogging. -
@dmondark the anti-closed-source linux hippies part is (I assume) a reference to atebits reply at http://getsatisfaction.com/atebits/to... which ends with
"How many identica users are there? And how many of these freedom-loving non-luddite hippie anarchists even bother paying for my software :)?" -
@Todd Eddy You guessed it. :) -
Inappropriate?I missed the original comment about "freedom-loving non-luddite hippie anarchists [...] paying for [the] software"
Mark me down as one. I originally purchased for the good UX and the multiple account support, but this would be icing on the cake if I could use this with StatusNet sites also.
I’m hopeful
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