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A comment on the question "Twitter IM Status" in Twitter:

However, if what you're looking for is a way to update Twitter from IM, there are third-party services such as http://ping.fm or http://excla.im that provide this capability. – mdy, on October 10, 2008 00:28

A comment on the question "Twitter IM Status" in Twitter:

Hello. Twitter says they currently have no timeframe for fixing IM (click here to see). – mdy, on October 10, 2008 00:04

Capjbadger replied on October 09, 2008 22:06 to the question "Twitter IM Status" in Twitter:

Is the IM coming back? Any word at all??

t3mujin replied on August 14, 2008 13:50 to the idea "Flickr integration?" in Brightkite:

Uploading photos these days is completely useless for many people, myself included. There could be a "import photo from flickr" feature, or any other photo hosting service, there could even be the option of BK updating the photo's geotag

Clint Miller replied on August 12, 2008 04:09 to the question "Twitter IM Status" in Twitter:

If this were my problem to solve I'd look seriously at ejabberd as an IM interface to twitter. Fast, robust, scalable, distributed by design, plugin extension architecture. Perhaps they are... dunno. If they're not maybe it's the powerful but obscure erlang ejabberd is written in that's preventing them.

If you've not tried erlang, you should. It's free of saturated fats and good for the environment! (well... kinda)

Does anyone have insight regarding the solution the twitter crew is stewing for the IM interface brew?

I'd like to 2nd akent (above): It would be great to see an altered API or better yet, just reinstate twitterIM so that our twitbots can feel useful and get back to work without having to be rewritten.

Help prevent the global twitbot identity crisis epidemic and bring back twitterIM.

akent replied on August 11, 2008 13:46 to the question "Twitter IM Status" in Twitter:

You know, it's not really GTalk / IM / whatever that I want back; I just want a proper API that I don't have to poll! The great thing about IM was updates came straight through using XMPP. Without it, a number of useful bots and services like TwitterSync (for facebook) just don't work any more.

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akent replied on August 11, 2008 13:40 to the question "Twitter IM Status" in Twitter:

Clearly they are rewriting the whole thing from scratch... But who knows why it's taking so damn long... Check out this blog post about the original implementation of Twitter's IM interface, no wonder it didn't scale!

http://romeda.org/blog/2006/11/announ...

Jason Riedy replied on July 21, 2008 00:32 to the idea "Flickr integration?" in Brightkite:

Or a method for getting more content *into* BrightKite: Query flickr for recent photos near the location...

mortenjust replied on May 26, 2008 13:14 to the idea "Flickr integration?" in Brightkite:

another way of geotagging AND getting pictures into brightkite places would be using the flickr API to find a user's flickr photos in a given timeframe which matches a user's checkins.

werker replied on May 16, 2008 04:39 to the idea "Flickr integration?" in Brightkite:

Come on people, you are not being very imaginative! I bet they integrate with Eye Phone and do something Snow Crash-ish:
http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http%3A...

Chad replied on May 15, 2008 14:25 to the idea "Flickr integration?" in Brightkite:

Oh hell yeah!

john c : atomicshed replied on May 10, 2008 16:50 to the idea "Flickr integration?" in Brightkite:

i agree also, i seem to have problems understanding the purpose of bright kite, I have a blog, flickr account even tumblr account so why do i need bright kite to post images and notes? Intergrating other services sounds ideal, when I'm at an upcoming event bBK could be updated, when i post an image via shozu to flickr this could be tagged as a place i'm at also. I don't know i'm just trying to find a use of BK that's easy, doesn't need me to keep login in to a site to do things i do in other locations just so others know where i am.
sorry

Wayne Sutton replied on May 10, 2008 15:53 to the idea "Flickr integration?" in Brightkite:

This is a must have feature, please add.

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