Comments on: Web, RSS Feed Reader, or Twitter App? (Trying TweetGlide) http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-rss-feed-reader-or-twitter-app-trying-tweetglide/ Internet Marketing with Ethics Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:06:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-rss-feed-reader-or-twitter-app-trying-tweetglide/comment-page-1/#comment-344 Antone Roundy Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:27:37 +0000 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=182#comment-344 The idle-time CPU usage problem has been fixed -- now barely uses any CPU at all while idle. Sweet! The idle-time CPU usage problem has been fixed — now barely uses any CPU at all while idle. Sweet!

]]> By: Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-rss-feed-reader-or-twitter-app-trying-tweetglide/comment-page-1/#comment-342 Antone Roundy Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:50:50 +0000 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=182#comment-342 An observation about TweetGlide ads -- early on, a high percentage of ads were the double-size Premiere Member ads. Now, the ratio is tipping heavily in favor of the smaller, less colorful free member ads. I'm guessing this is because the kinds of people who were early adopters were more likely to see the benefit of paying for Premiere Membership. What this means for you: assuming the trend is going to continue, if you're a Premiere Member, your ads are really going to stand out from the crowd. An observation about TweetGlide ads — early on, a high percentage of ads were the double-size Premiere Member ads. Now, the ratio is tipping heavily in favor of the smaller, less colorful free member ads.

I’m guessing this is because the kinds of people who were early adopters were more likely to see the benefit of paying for Premiere Membership.

What this means for you: assuming the trend is going to continue, if you’re a Premiere Member, your ads are really going to stand out from the crowd.

]]> By: Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-rss-feed-reader-or-twitter-app-trying-tweetglide/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Antone Roundy Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:15:44 +0000 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=182#comment-317 Next bugs: 1) If you post a message over 140 characters to Facebook only and not Twitter, it ends up saying "read the rest of this post at..." and linking to your TweetGlide blog, but the post doesn't appear on your TweetGlide blog. 2) There doesn't appear to be a way to control the update frequency for Facebook. Next bugs:

1) If you post a message over 140 characters to Facebook only and not Twitter, it ends up saying “read the rest of this post at…” and linking to your TweetGlide blog, but the post doesn’t appear on your TweetGlide blog.

2) There doesn’t appear to be a way to control the update frequency for Facebook.

]]> By: Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-rss-feed-reader-or-twitter-app-trying-tweetglide/comment-page-1/#comment-314 Antone Roundy Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:50:12 +0000 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=182#comment-314 Be sure to http://tweetglide.com/YourUserName/blog and check out the blog they create for you. It's based on your Twitter profile. I'm not 100% thrilled with the huge ad at the top of the screen, nor with the "other cool blogs" feature that you can't seem to turn off (BUT KEEP READING BELOW FOR A SOLUTION). And if having my ads shown at the bottom of peoples' blogs is going to use up my ad credits, I'm definitely not thrilled with that -- How often is anyone going to scroll down there? You can customize your blog somewhat by clicking "Settings" at the top and creating "widgets". These can contain HTML code, JavaScript and CSS. Although putting CSS "style" tags in the body of a webpage isn't "valid" HTML, it works (that's how MySpace skins profiles). Here's a little CSS trick you might want to use -- put this in a widget, and then be sure to drag it over to the "your sidebar" column at the bottom of the settings page: <style type="text/css">#blog_roll_blogs { display:none; }</style> Bye bye links to blogs I don't really endorse! Be sure to http://tweetglide.com/YourUserName/blog and check out the blog they create for you. It’s based on your Twitter profile.

I’m not 100% thrilled with the huge ad at the top of the screen, nor with the “other cool blogs” feature that you can’t seem to turn off (BUT KEEP READING BELOW FOR A SOLUTION). And if having my ads shown at the bottom of peoples’ blogs is going to use up my ad credits, I’m definitely not thrilled with that — How often is anyone going to scroll down there?

You can customize your blog somewhat by clicking “Settings” at the top and creating “widgets”. These can contain HTML code, JavaScript and CSS. Although putting CSS “style” tags in the body of a webpage isn’t “valid” HTML, it works (that’s how MySpace skins profiles).

Here’s a little CSS trick you might want to use — put this in a widget, and then be sure to drag it over to the “your sidebar” column at the bottom of the settings page:

<style type=”text/css”>#blog_roll_blogs { display:none; }</style>

Bye bye links to blogs I don’t really endorse!

]]> By: Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-rss-feed-reader-or-twitter-app-trying-tweetglide/comment-page-1/#comment-311 Antone Roundy Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:58:17 +0000 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=182#comment-311 Problem #2: if you tweet something longer than 140 characters, TweetGlide posts the full tweet to a blog they create and host for you, and link to it from your tweet. So far so good. The problem is that you end up with two tweets: 1 chopped off at 140 characters and an almost identical tweet (chopped off a little earlier) with a link to the blog. Problem #2: if you tweet something longer than 140 characters, TweetGlide posts the full tweet to a blog they create and host for you, and link to it from your tweet. So far so good. The problem is that you end up with two tweets: 1 chopped off at 140 characters and an almost identical tweet (chopped off a little earlier) with a link to the blog.

]]> By: Antone Roundy http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/web-rss-feed-reader-or-twitter-app-trying-tweetglide/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Antone Roundy Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:40:29 +0000 http://WhiteHatCrew.com/blog/?p=182#comment-310 Okay, a few negatives about the current version of TweetGlide. This is a beta version, so I'm sure at least some of these will be resolved soon. On my laptop, it's currently using 134MB of RAM and about 40% of CPU...while sitting idle. I'm pretty sure it wasn't using that much CPU yesterday, so I'm not sure what's going on. I've reduced it's polling rate, so it's not because it's busy updating. It has buttons to mark everything read and hide read items. These work...but then everything comes back. Okay, a few negatives about the current version of TweetGlide. This is a beta version, so I’m sure at least some of these will be resolved soon.

On my laptop, it’s currently using 134MB of RAM and about 40% of CPU…while sitting idle. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t using that much CPU yesterday, so I’m not sure what’s going on. I’ve reduced it’s polling rate, so it’s not because it’s busy updating.

It has buttons to mark everything read and hide read items. These work…but then everything comes back.

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