Hans Gerwitz's dashboard

A comment on the idea "Adding Groups or Stacks to Tweetie for Mac" in atebits:

This is almost possible with 1.1 and saved searches, but the limit on search length seriously narrows "group" size. it also exposes a flaw in my plan: @replies are included. – Hans Gerwitz, on May 21, 2009 04:54

Hans Gerwitz marked one of GR's replies in atebits as useful. GR replied to the idea "Saved searches in left sidebar". Hans Gerwitz and 11 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Hans Gerwitz started following the idea "Show "sent from xxx" in details of Tweet after double-clicking it." in atebits.

Hans Gerwitz started following the idea "Get rid of Re-Post / Re-Tweet altogether" in atebits.

Hans Gerwitz started following the problem "Timeline and mentions should be in sync" in atebits.

Hans Gerwitz started following the idea "Mark all as read-button" in atebits.

Hans Gerwitz reported a problem in atebits on April 23, 2009 17:05:

Pre-reading tweets via keyboard selection

Using the up-arrow key to scan through tweets, I can go "off the top" and end up with no tweets selected. This is fine, but doing so seems to cause new tweets to come in marked as previously selected.

Hans Gerwitz shared an idea in atebits on April 23, 2009 17:02:

Refresh on network connnection

I don't care to set the refresh time or manually refresh very often, but I am frustrated when my machine is offline for a while and reconnects. Please detect network connection and trigger a refresh. (Safari and Mail both offer good examples of this behavior.)

Hans Gerwitz replied on April 23, 2009 16:51 to the idea "Adding Groups or Stacks to Tweetie for Mac" in atebits:

A proposal on providing this functionality for "power users" without compromising simplicity:

• Add metadata specifiers to search, particularly "from:".


• Unlike Twitter's web search, allow "or" operations on those fields


• Place proxy icons in the left toolbar for saved searchs

Then we could build queries that include messages from friendA, friendB, &c. and save them as a "group".

There's some nuance missing here around inclusion of replies and notification of new messages, but it's a start with a quantum of utility.

Hans Gerwitz shared an idea in Gowalla on April 23, 2009 16:20:

Publish to Fire Eagle or Brightkite

Gowalla offers a more compelling reason to launch an app and "check in" than most location-oriented tools (except perhaps Foursquare)... I would love if it would (optionally) publish my location to Fire Eagle or Brightkite so I can take advantage of those services indirectly.

Hans Gerwitz replied on April 20, 2009 23:56 to the idea "Multitouch for Tweetie" in atebits:

Pleasepleaseplease support the Safari "page navigation" conventions.

Hans Gerwitz started following the idea "Multitouch for Tweetie" in atebits.

Hans Gerwitz replied on April 20, 2009 23:54 to the idea "Automatically expand (shortened) URLs" in atebits:

I would love to see expanded URLs and even thumbnails of picture links on the Conversation screen.

Hans Gerwitz started following the idea "Auto-Complete Twitter Names" in atebits.

Hans Gerwitz started following the idea "Delete my own Tweets" in atebits.

Hans Gerwitz started following the idea "Adding Groups or Stacks to Tweetie for Mac" in atebits.

Hans Gerwitz marked one of Amy Muller's replies in Netflix as useful. Amy Muller replied to the problem "Netflix to break homes by eliminating profiles!". Hans Gerwitz and 19 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Hans Gerwitz started following the problem "Netflix to break homes by eliminating profiles!" in Netflix.

Hans Gerwitz marked one of Jason Goldman's replies in Twitter as useful. Jason Goldman replied to the question "What is Twitter's stance toward abuse?". Hans Gerwitz and 10 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Hans Gerwitz replied on May 23, 2008 02:03 to the problem "Twitter refuses to uphold Terms of Service" in Twitter:

I admire Twitter's laissez faire handling, but do agree they should have TOS that reflect their intentions. Perhaps replace them with "like SMTP, we route messages. Tracking who is offended by which content is beyond the scope of our service."

One does have to wonder about the order of events: "abuse" -> Ariel joins Pownce -> scandal