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A comment on the idea "all my 1.2 improvments" in Tapulous:

Y'know I've been looking for a way to rename Shakes so that it couldn't be confused with vibrate, and I think you've come up with the solution. Arrows. – Chris Clark, on July 28, 2008 05:50

Chris Clark replied on July 28, 2008 01:56 to the question "Why won't Twinkle find people near me, or even people far far away?" in Tapulous:

There's a post at Macworld about how to submit your home wifi to the Skyhook database.

http://iphone.macworld.com/2008/01/pu...

Chris Clark replied on July 28, 2008 01:49 to the idea "all my 1.2 improvments" in Tapulous:

Heh. Work on 1.2 is already underway and fixes several of the bugs you list here. On a sidenote, Number 9 is already in TTR (it's called "Shakes" in the Options)

Chris Clark replied on July 28, 2008 01:47 to the question "Release date of Twinkle and Friend Book??" in Tapulous:

We haven't submitted Friend Book 1.1 yet. Sorry, but you're right: we definitely want to make it right.

Chris Clark replied on July 28, 2008 00:59 to the question "AHHH PEOPLE ARE CHEATING, is this possibal?" in Tapulous:

This is possible, but we have our own means of finding and removing false scores, and we're working on ways to prevent this kind of score-tampering in future versions.

Chris Clark replied on July 28, 2008 00:23 to the question "How to Direct Msg on Twinkle?" in Tapulous:

Ahah-- sorry, I'd made an assumption that you were DMing someone you were already friends with. You have to Follow a person before you DM them. Right now there are a couple of bugs around Following, but suffice to say that if they appear in your Home screen, you can DM them.

Chris Clark replied on July 28, 2008 00:10 to the question "Release date of Twinkle and Friend Book??" in Tapulous:

We don't have an estimate yet -- we've taken the privacy concerns raised by Friend Book 1.0 very seriously and want to make sure the re-release is rock solid.

Chris Clark replied on July 28, 2008 00:06 to the question "Make it pop!" in Tapulous:

We've upped the contrast on Twinkle's bubbles in Twinkle 1.1, which should be available soon.

Chris Clark replied on July 28, 2008 00:05 to the question "About what time is the voting going to take place" in Tapulous:

Don't worry, there'll be plenty of time for you to cast your vote once voting is open.

Chris Clark replied on July 27, 2008 23:11 to the discussion "Tap to the beat??" in Tapulous:

Sometimes you'll start to notice a lag in the game that puts the beats off-time to the music. This is a performance problem that we're working on *right now* :)

Chris Clark replied on July 27, 2008 23:10 to the question "How to Direct Msg on Twinkle?" in Tapulous:

RIght now you can only DM in response to someone -- click their ping, and in the page that follows there's a "Send Private Message" button (or, if you're replying to a direct message of theirs, you can hit the "Reply" button in the top right)

This limitation is being changed in the next version of Twinkle, but for now the rule of thumb is this: if the message bubble is blue, it's a private direct message. If the bubble is yellow or purple, it's public.

Chris Clark replied on July 27, 2008 21:57 to the idea "Follow Your Conversation: New tweets should appear at the bottom of the page." in Tapulous:

You're very, very right. But there are arguments to be made for following convention, too, cliffs aside ;)

In 1.0 we stayed relatively consistent with the Twitter experience (since they're the one third-party service we support right now) but as we push forward into territory Twitter hasn't explored and into services besides Twitter we'll have some interesting problems to solve in our design, and we'll debate them for hours at the whiteboard before we commit to anything. I'm glad you have faith that we're up to the challenge.

Chris Clark replied on July 27, 2008 21:30 to the discussion "CANNONFIRE!!!!!" in Tapulous:

SoSiCK won the tournament with a score of 115,615.

Chris Clark replied on July 27, 2008 21:30 to the discussion "CANNONFIRE!!!!!" in Tapulous:

SoSiCK won the tournament with a score of 115,615.

A comment on the question "May we have a complete list of things which you've updated in v1.1?" in Tapulous:

You can rest assured that fixing those stability issues was #1 on the list for Twinkle 1.1. – Chris Clark, on July 27, 2008 10:03

Chris Clark replied on July 27, 2008 09:10 to the question "Twinkle Shots: I want 'em!" in Tapulous:

We definitely have this feature in the works for a future version of Twinkle

Chris Clark replied on July 27, 2008 09:08 to the idea "Follow Your Conversation: New tweets should appear at the bottom of the page." in Tapulous:

I agree it's counterintuitive at first, but reverse-chronological sorting is a strangely-useful convention that started on the net so that the freshest posts would always be at the top, and you would never have to scroll very far to see them. Blogs, news sites, and social networks like Twitter and Facebook use it; as does Twinkle ;)

Chris Clark replied on July 27, 2008 09:04 to the question "Is there a way to delete individual photos that have been uploaded using Twinkle?" in Tapulous:

right now, there isn't. deleting your pings is a feature we have planned for the future

A comment on the idea "Loopt-like exact location for friends-only?" in Tapulous:

Those coordinates aren't generated by Twinkle, they've been inserted into the twinklers' Twitter profile by a different app. – Chris Clark, on July 27, 2008 09:03

Chris Clark replied on July 27, 2008 08:57 to the problem "Tap Tap revenge is costing me money!" in Tapulous:

TTR uses the internet to download tracks when you go through the "Download More Tracks" menu, and also for the "red button" menu featuring the latest contests and announcements. Without the internet we can't offer more songs.

If you're roaming, or if your phone carrier is charging you money to download things from the internet, I can only suggest you avoid downloading tracks or go into "Airplane Mode" (in iPhone Settings) to avoid the charges.