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Re: New features in FF and Twitter (Scripting News)

GarinKilpatrick — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:50:59 -0000

Agreed. I can't imagine coding an exception for hyphens is that tough of a fix, I bet Dave could do it in 5 minutes.

Re: New features in FF and Twitter (Scripting News)

GarinKilpatrick — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:47:21 -0000

Good point. Disallowing hashtags or cash symbols in usernames I can understand because these need to remain isolated for hashtags and stocktwit scanning purposes. so that user names are not also grabbed when scanning for topic or stock ticker tags. Plenty of people use periods in their e-mail addresses though, and Twitter user names should be no different. Twitter should allow the usage of periods in addition to the regular character set in usernames, as well as fixing the hashtag hyphen glitch.

Re: New features in FF and Twitter (Scripting News)

playerx — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:08:50 -0000

Given that @twitter has no predefined blueprint, it will likely take them a little while to figure out all the #hashtag regular expressions that most people will want to use. It's not like the limited character set for @usernames. Why not have #? or #$ or #. or #^ or #& or #* etc, and then all the other variations of the tagging system we now have. Stocktwits uses the $BLAH for example. And I've seen some people use !blah for tags of some sort.

Re: New features in FF and Twitter (Scripting News)

D. Joris Dirks — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:22:14 -0000

I noticed that before, it probably is because all punctuation marks are filtered, to 'fix' tags in posts like:
Just had a great #party!
Anyone heard about @SSRN? It's so 1.0

But indeed, hyphens should be excluded from that

Re: New features in FF and Twitter (Scripting News)

GarinKilpatrick — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:30:41 -0000

Friendfeed and Twitter both fail at #hashtags with hyphens, for example: #real-time only linkifies #real. Do you think this would be easy to fix Dave?

Re: New features in FF and Twitter (Scripting News)

Jonas Smith — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:03:55 -0000

I have never seen updates from Scripting News at weblogs.com. Perhaps weblogs.com is ignoring Scripting News or Scripting News is not pinging weblogs.com. In any case, that might explain why FriendFeed is not picking up Scripting News from weblogs.com

Re: New features in FF and Twitter (Scripting News)

dave — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:08:14 -0000

Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look.

This is why I suggested that they make a Twitter clone dev kit, so
publishing organizations that wouldn't have the wherewithall to
compete with Twitter could use the FF engine to get in the game.

It's a good match, but I don't think the FF guys are hungry enough yet.

Re: New features in FF and Twitter (Scripting News)

Terry Storch — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:55:30 -0000

Dave, we are using FF as a group conversation tool in our digerati development team. We have team members all across the US/World and were searching for a great collaboration tool. Chat was not working well, but the Private FF groups works amazing. Their UI and design sucks, so we load it into a FluidApp and user our own style sheet (see here http://www.tonystewardblog....

Don't see many people talking about using FF this way, so thought I would share with you.

Re: New features in FF and Twitter (Scripting News)

Nick Molnar — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:21:25 -0000

SUL may be bad, but that isn't what makes the follower count useless. There are a few dozen Suggested Users on Twitter, but there are tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of accounts with auto-follow bots that have thousands of followers. That leaves plenty of room for spam to make its way into search results. Especially now that some of these junk accounts use Twitter trends to populate their feed with hot keywords.