Tag: twitter

Vectorized Twitter iconset

The guys at twitter created a basic set of icons for all developers using the Twitter api. It is located [[https://dev.twitter.com/docs/image-resources|on the Twitter developers site]]. However, they only provided very small version of the icons in a bitmap format. [[https://dev.twitter.com/issues/597|Like this guy says]], developers need various other icon sizes and it’s kinda hard do create Read More

Monitoring notifications using Twitter DMs

I recently had an outage of my mail service, which caused my delivery mailqueue to grow and grow. I was sick by the time and didn’t noticed that until two days later. The restart of the service caused my server to nearly drop dead delivering all the mail, checking for spam and viruses. Of course Read More

Your good, twitter. Stay that way.

I recently read an article by german Internet-nuisance [[http://twitter.com/saschalobo|Sascha Lobo]] about [[http://plus.google.com|Google+]] in comparison to [[http://www.facebook.com|facebook]]. You can read that (german) article [[http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,772656,00.html|here]] and a probably very badly translated version [[http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&hl=de&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=de&tl=en&twu=1&u=http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,772656,00.html&usg=ALkJrhh0VD0YdoZTHf988TijXm-C0gKo6g|here]]. But that’s not, what caught my eye. There was a reference to an article by german blogger and some kind of director of social Read More