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Alison started following the question "Typing over 140 characters, textbox loses cursor focus" in Twitter.

A comment on the question "firefox 3.0b5 loses focus at 141 chars" in Twitter:

thanks mdy- that was helpful. :) – Alison, on May 05, 2008 00:38

Alison asked a question in Twitter on April 27, 2008 01:00:

firefox 3.0b5 loses focus at 141 chars

Crossposted from firefox 3 reporting- just in case anyone else has this issue/there is a twitter side solution

3.0b5 (downloaded 26 April 08), on Mac OS Leopard.
Using the twitter web interface (www.twitter.com/home) typing in a message that gets to -1 allowable characters (you are allowed 140) the form loses focus. This doesn't happen in FF2 or Safari.

Plus, with the backspace back (turned off in about:config at browser.backspace_action = 2 rather than 0) this was very annoying.

Alison replied on April 25, 2008 11:14 to the question "When will WordPress.com users be able to embed the widget onto our blogs?" in Skribit:

just a thought- you can't use the copy-paste iframe code method?

Alison replied on April 24, 2008 20:30 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

from the getsatisfaction rules:
"If you see content that crosses the line of acceptability (including spam) please mark it "Flag for Review." We'll remove flagged items if we agree that they're no good."

How about something like that for twitter?

Alison marked one of Paul Stamatiou's replies in Skribit as useful. Paul Stamatiou replied to the question "Not seeing the new widget".

Alison replied on April 24, 2008 16:40 to the question "Not seeing the new widget" in Skribit:

I think this is a me-side cache issue- I have the new one on my page after many refreshes (with various keyboard combinations!) still don't see the new one on pstam.com

Alison replied on April 24, 2008 15:24 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

unwanted email = spam. I WANT the emails that say "your friend has finally found twitter and is following you!" I DON'T WANT the emails that say "spammer/jerk with 15,000 follows is following you too!" I don't care if they can read my tweets, can see me in the public feed, are selling snake oil- but it's the email that drives me up the wall. The extra time it takes for me to visit twitter and go "ok, nvm, spammer" annoys me. If added info was in the email, then it would rock. The email wouldn't be annoying.

Oh, but if we don't have to visit twitter.com, we don't give revenue for any pay-per-impression ads that there might be.

Alison asked a question in Skribit on April 24, 2008 10:58:

Not seeing the new widget

So, the April updates aren't showing up on my skribit widget (or the others that I've seen) except the one on the skribit home page. How can I fix this? Do I need to repaste in my widget? (I'm using a non-standard blogging platform) Or do we need to wait till the new widget is rolled out?

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

ditto. (And I thought your slug was a duck on first glance!) – Alison, on April 23, 2008 17:39

Alison replied on April 23, 2008 17:38 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

would it be weird/confusing to have two buttons- "this is TOTALLY DEFINITELY SPAM" and "I think this may be spam, somebody check it out please?"

Alison marked one of Biz Stone's replies in Twitter as useful. Biz Stone replied to the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow". Alison and 8 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Alison marked one of Jason Goldman's replies in Twitter as useful. Jason Goldman replied to the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow".

A comment on the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter:

you go to your friend's twitter page and see updates not on your timeline.
that's the problem. – Alison, on April 21, 2008 23:17

A comment on the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter:

try following/unfollowing BBC or CNN to temporarily clear your cache. – Alison, on April 21, 2008 15:59

A comment on the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter:

yep, you read me correctly – Alison, on April 21, 2008 15:56

Alison replied on April 21, 2008 01:32 to the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter:

looks to be (heh) US centric. USian followed of mine? problems. Aussies? no problems.

Alison replied on April 21, 2008 01:01 to the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter:

follow/unfollow someone like BBC or CNN- that will clear your cache (temp. fix)

Alison replied on April 20, 2008 22:00 to the problem "Web not posting tweets from people I follow" in Twitter:

twitter, are you running out of bandwidth/servers? WHY NOT roll back this stupid caching thing. Hint- even if something does work for YOUR accounts, if it's broken for everyone else, you need to fix it.

A comment on the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

++! I love this email format. – Alison, on April 20, 2008 19:46