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tristan started following the question "why is twitter tracking disabled now" in Twitter.

tristan reported a problem in Twitter on July 13, 2008 02:13:

why links (URL's) in my posts are not active (clickable) in the twitter status update applet?

why links are not active in the twitter status update applet?

i'm talking about the applet from http://twitter.com/javascripts/blogge...
with div class="widget-content", div id="twitter_div", ul id="twitter_update_list", such as the one displayed on the top right on my blog www.loupiote.com .

URL in the twitter posts are not clickable, and that's ennoying.

tristan replied on April 24, 2008 00:12 to the problem "Blocks blocked." in Twitter:

same here. when i click on the "OK, I STILL WANT TO BLOCK THIS PERSON" button to confirm the blocking, i get a bogus page with XML (instead of the confirmation).

however the blocking appears to have been taken into account.

tristan started following the problem "Blocks blocked." in Twitter.

tristan asked a question in Twitter on April 18, 2008 09:05:

IE7 error when loading home page

IE7 indicates an error when it loads my twitter home page:

Line: 1128
Char: 9
Error: Object expected
Code: 0
URL: http://twitter.com/home

Using the latest update of IE7 version 7.0.5730.13 on Xp SP2 with all the current updates installed.

tristan replied on April 13, 2008 01:47 to the question "tracking multi-word expressions, rather that multiple words?" in Twitter:

my "track cell space" just caught this:

(skytland): Yuri Malenchenko just called my cell phone from space station! So cool.

that's an example of what i don't want - cell and space are not consecutive (i'm only interested when they are consecutive). although this particular twitter was quite cool...

tristan replied on April 11, 2008 05:03 to the question "tracking multi-word expressions, rather that multiple words?" in Twitter:

"track" indicates that i track "cell space" (i don't track "cell" nor "space"). yet, i keep getting twitters where those two words are not consecutive (i.e. there are other words between them).

so there seem to be a bug, or their FAQ page / documentation is incorrect.

note that i issued the command:
track cell space
(and not: track "cell space").

maybe that makes a difference?

tristan asked a question in Twitter on April 10, 2008 21:28:

tracking multi-word expressions, rather that multiple words?

i want to track posts that contain several words in a particular order.

for example, i want to track posts that contain the expression "cell space".

but if i issue "track cell space", it tracks all posts that contain the word "cell" and the word "space", e.g. "cell phone and living space". i don't want those. i only want posts with the expression "cell space".

is there a way?

tristan replied on March 30, 2008 07:18 to the question "Background image appears to be covered in very dark filter!" in Twitter:

maybe your image has an embeded color profile? most browsers (e.g. IE) ignore color profiles and they’ll assume they’re in the sRGB color space. try converting your images to this color profile.

tristan asked a question in Twitter on March 30, 2008 00:08:

how can i track only particular posts of a particular user?

is the poster name included of the beginning of the string that is matched for tracking?

for example, i want to track only the posts from user "tristansf" that start with the word "news". will those be caught by "track tristansf news" ?

i have the impression that this is not the case... so, how can i do that?

if i track "news", i will get all the posting with the word "news", and if i follow "tristansf", i will get all the tristansf posts.

how can i get only the tristansf posts that start by the word "news", for example?

it would be nice if the string used for matching could start with the poster name, for example, or if there was a trick to include the poster name in the "track" pattern.

tristan asked a question in Twitter on March 29, 2008 23:20:

tracking problem with numbers and special characters

I want to track posts like:
"EarthQuake M 4.8, location" (where location is anything)
but i don't want to track "EarthQuake M", because then i would get things like
"EarthQuake M 4.2, location" but i don't want that, because i want only the postings that start with the string "EarthQuake M 4.8,".

but apparently tracking such postings is not possible.
i tried

track EarthQuake M 4.8,

but this does not catch those posting.

what is the solution?

tristan replied on March 29, 2008 22:04 to the problem "Track/Untrack works with phrases, sort of" in Twitter:

i noticed a similar issue, see:

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

tristan asked a question in Twitter on March 29, 2008 21:51:

track term with trailing comma not working?

what is the difference between "track abc" and "track abc," (i.e. with a trailing comma)?

apparently those two are not the same. when i track both, the "track" command displays:

You are tracking: "abc", "abc".

(i.e. i see the tracked term twice, but the comma does not appear)

is that a bug?

tristan replied on March 29, 2008 21:44 to the problem "delete not working" in Twitter:

i can't delete with IE7, but i'm able to delete with FireFox...

please fix delete with IE7!

tristan replied on December 14, 2007 21:18 to the question "Can I block someone?" in Twitter:

where can you see your block list?

tristan started following the question "Can I block someone?" in Twitter.