bauserdotcom's dashboard

bauserdotcom started following the idea "Don't allow nudging of active accounts." in Brightkite.

A comment on the problem "Content not pulling from remote services" in chi.mp:

Facebook produces RSS feeds for the Notes and posted Links from every account. (One for status updates, too, if the account is configured for it.) If Plaxo and FriendFeed can export them, it shouldn't be that hard for chi.mp – bauserdotcom, on April 12, 2009 03:31

bauserdotcom marked one of Lesley's replies in Brightkite as useful. Lesley replied to the question "howto add placemarks with no adress".

bauserdotcom replied on June 19, 2008 17:10 to the question "how do you update the facebook app box?" in Twitter:

Try uninstalling the Twitter app, then reinstalling it. If I recall correctly, that will force you to re-enter username/password info.

bauserdotcom replied on April 28, 2008 21:08 to the question "Why don't my tweets show clickable tinyurls when I post URLs?" in Twitter:

Please re-read what I said: "the conversion happens AFTER you hit submit."

The conversion to a tinyurl happens AFTER you submit the tweet -- you're not supposed to see it in the input box.

You're misunderstanding what tinyurl is being used for here. It's not to keep you under the 140 character limit -- it's just for aesthetics. You have to meet the 140 limit before the conversion, because some device (cell phones) are going to cut you off at 140 no matter what.

bauserdotcom replied on April 28, 2008 20:58 to the question "Add Device SMS to 40404; reply = Access Denied" in Twitter:

Are you using T-mobile's prepaid service? They block SMS to phone numbers shorter than 7 digits. There's nothing Twitter can do about that.

A comment on the question "Does Twitter allow duplicate user names?" in Twitter:

mdy's probably right. I've seen this before -- those @ messages are meant for somebody with a username SIMILAR to yours, and the sender is just confusing 2 names. I bet if you go to the page of the person sending you messages, you'll find they're already following somebody with a similar name. – bauserdotcom, on April 28, 2008 05:18

bauserdotcom replied on April 28, 2008 05:14 to the question "Why don't my tweets show clickable tinyurls when I post URLs?" in Twitter:

The "pharmaguy" twitter page has a bunch of tinyurl links. You understand that the conversion happens AFTER you hit submit, right?

Also, twitter only makes the conversion on links above a certain length. Some of the links you're including in tweets aren't long enough to trigger the automatic conversion.

crystal's reply to "Can I evict a stale user from a username I really want?" was just promoted to the most useful! bauserdotcom and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Hi, we generally have a 9 month rule: if the account hasn't been active in 9 months, we free the user name.

thanks!

bauserdotcom replied on April 15, 2008 19:21 to the question "I know @ but what is #" in Twitter:

It's not an official Twitter feature -- it's just a code some people use to add keywords to their twitters:

http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Hashtags

bauserdotcom replied on April 12, 2008 23:23 to the problem "sms from India not supported??" in Twitter:

You're using the phone international number. Twitter changed it to +447624801423 and didn't update all of the help manual on twitter.com.

Because Twitter really sucks at tech support, apparently.

bauserdotcom started following the question "Reply-To is broken" in Twitter.

bauserdotcom replied on April 09, 2008 01:01 to the problem "Can I use Twitter with T-Mobile?" in Twitter:

Twitter's support team always gives bad answers to this question. I suggest ignoring anything they say. Anyway:

Are you using T-Mobile's prepaid service ("T-Mobile To Go")? If so, your problem is that Twitter uses a "shortcode" (a phone number shorter than 7 digits) for SMS tweets, and T-Mobile's prepaid service blocks all SMS messages to and from shortcodes. (In other words, it's T-Mobile's fault, not Twitter's.)

There are two workarounds:

1) You can verify your phone (and, afterwards, send tweets) using Twitter's UK number, which is currently: +447624801423

However, you still won't be able to receive tweets on your phone, and SMS to a UK number costs more than domestic SMS.

2) Tweet through an e-mail-based service like twittermail.com or ping.fm (T-mobile lets you send SMS messages to e-mail addresses, if you didn't know.) Looks like twittermail can even be set up to e-mail tweets to you (your phone's e-mail address is based on the phone number).

bauserdotcom replied on March 25, 2008 19:41 to the problem "I can't set up my phone with Twitter; is my phone supported?" in Twitter:

Hey Crystal, the international number you posted works, but http://help.twitter.com/index.php?pg=... gives users a different number -- which used to work, but doesn't now.

Did you knuckleheads CHANGE THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER and not remember to tell the users?

bauserdotcom replied on February 09, 2008 14:26 to the question "Can I use the UK long code in the US?" in Twitter:

I used to use the UK SMS number with my US phone, but it stopped working the middle of January. If Twitter is blocking US phones from the UK number, they'll probably never admit it. They're jackasses like that.

bauserdotcom started following the problem "i have sent in my passcode to the special + number over an hour ago" in Twitter.

bauserdotcom started following the question "I'm trying to verify my phone and do everything right, but it's not working. Somebody please help!!" in Twitter.

bauserdotcom started following the question "Can I use the UK long code in the US?" in Twitter.

bauserdotcom replied on December 23, 2007 17:39 to the question "maybe the twitter code for blogs is mistyped." in Twitter:

You are correct. TEXT is not a valid attribute for the SCRIPT element.

Properly-functioning browsers will completely ignore that attribute (because that's what browsers are supposed to do with attributes that aren't valid). On the other hand, all browsers (except maybe crazy experimental ones) use javascript as the default scripting language, so the script works, because browsers assume the script is a javascript.

But you're right; Twitter should fix that, because it'll mess with some HTML editors and all good validators.

bauserdotcom replied on December 22, 2007 15:54 to the problem "T-Mobile is blocking Twitter" in Twitter:

Wrong.

The Telecommunications Act is about phone companies blocking other phone companies (and, by extension, phone numbers served by other phone companies). Phone companies are allowed to block short codes because they're not real phone numbers. It's a weird loophole, but it's legal.

It's time to drop the pseudo-legal arguments about neutrality, because they don't apply. Even the guy who started this noise admits he was wrong -- he just wasn't principled enough to admit in any of the forums he spammed.