Twitter Users are currently given two primary interfaces through which they can interact with the growingly popular service: by the Twitter website itself or through TXT messaging via mobile phone.
A number of companies have launched third party tools to enhance computer based Twitter interaction. Twitterrific has a strong fan base amongst Mac Users, Twitteroo a PC version of Twitterrific, and more recently Tweetbar bought the Twitter homepage into the Firefox sidebar.
A new Firefox Add-On from Infinimedia, TwitBin, takes these previous platforms to the next level with a custom inline application of Twitter that just works.
Sometimes it’s the simplest things, and TwitBin cuts right to the chase: you get your Twitter messages down the left hand side of your Firefox window, broken up by color. A text box is provided for the addition of your own Twitters: no post this button is provided, Infinimedia thought this one through and knew that most people understand the concept of hitting ENTER.
Advertising purists wont like one part of the plugin: a 180×50 px banner ad is present at the bottom of the add-on. It wasn’t flashing or offering me free iPods; it’s subtle, so I didn’t have any issues with it, but some might.
In the absence of any other competitors this add-on should be popular amongst the army of Twitter fans, and it’s something I’ll be using from now on.
The developers shared one additional tidbit with us that was worth highlighting: it took less than 2 weeks to develop and cost less than $1000.
Clever thinking and good code need not be the exclusive domain of the mega rich or the VC funded.
You can aim at Vaspers, but you cannot hit him. It bounces off me and sticks to your mom.
All these webless wonders looking for “revenue streams”.
Start a blog or make a web site yourself, then ask about how to mammonisticaclly, hedonistically, narcissistically “monetize it”.
Old skoolers all.
No, Vaspers defends his friends. You are just not accustomed to blogocombat. You live in La La Land where you think you can attack without a URL for me to attack.
You are right; you are a king among us all. We are not worthy of you. Please do not waste any more of your time bestowing your enlightened brilliance upon us who went to schools, even old ones. The world awaits your greatness; go conquer it.
well, you could do data analysis and provide stats, and let the pubs. handle add sales and collection (not that it would prevent the add presence). Then there is the “freemium” (still part of the data analysis), which could be quite cheap and might bundle well with a number of mobile services these days.
But, the bigger issue is the low_barrier_to_entry (that is what $1k means), and with that, comes the level of ads the consumer will deal with before one of the “consumers” goes and makes a clone (for yaspers and the linux “hippies”).
Don’t try to tell me what to do bitch boy, webless troll.
What pathetic fools, to go to an online forum, flame the place and the tech recommendations and reviews…
…yet too cowardly or newbie (more likely, let’s be gracious) to embed a URL in their anonymous nickname or whatever they’re hiding behind.
Webless trolls with thin skins and no content.
Yes you are not Cluetrain! I forced you to reveal your Korporate Amerikkka selves.
Thanks.
Such sober scholarly discussions, weblessly long winded about “monetizing” their pretty little vanities of delusion.
buzzword gobblydeegook. I am, among a thousand other skills, a technical writer and web analyst. your vacant phrases don’t fool me.
Oh, I would never question the pillar of strength that you are, and presume that I could give your orders. You are a man’s man. You have no brain matter to waste by holding two ideas at once in your head. There is black, there is white, and you know how to tell them apart, unlike us confused souls lost in a sea of gray. I particularly admire your creative reinterpretation of the English language; my spell checker can’t find a single word in your posts that is known to it. You must be part of the vanguard who invents new ones. You are even free to do away with verbs and subjects; what a spectacular mind, quite unlike those runts who use anger to reach what their frayed minds can’t touch.
I do suggest that you stay, then, and that you keep on sharing all the greatness that is you. In fact, I order you to stay.
HOLY $H!T, you really need to settle down. you are not in your element. if you have something to discuss besides simple personal attacks, like the technology they utilize (frnt-end or back-end); or, yes, how the people that write the code intend to feed their families, please go ahead. Listen here, “blogspot-boy”, maybe im not that self-important or have much to contribute. But at least I don’t have some anti-corporate website hosted on a large corporation’s servers.
You are wankers without web sites. Show me your URL you freaking idiot trolls.
I’m not anti-corporate. I’m anti-Enronish Korporate Amerikkka. Not anti real America.
I use neologistic psychedelic trash talk to confound and besmirch you webless trolls, and I burn your Harry Potter books, too, tweenies.
You webless trolls started the “attack” by flaming. Go back and watch the thread progression.
Not even brave enough to type in shit. There. I did it for you. Or was that a DRM encryption key?
bdb: if you’re not a site administrator, shut your fucking mouth to me, bitch boy without a web site.
Yes, because real men have websites. Not hordes of lovers, successful lives, or powerful virility. Websites. That’s the differentiator.
Sorry everyone, too many PBRs.
@vaspers, you are an idiot. please stop. you have adwords on your blog. we are not dancing_with_the_devil. there are plenty of free services out there for you. we’re not going to take anything from you. I’m glad you provided feedback for the add-on, but this needs to end. Please send donations to my fund: commiesRUS.com
garden variety, low grade Anonymous Trolling, effected by refraining from embedding a link, their web address URL, how do you like that for “Monkeying Down”? Simon W?, in their phony nickname pseudonyms.
bdb & “Vaspers is
Vapid:you refuse to reveal who you are: that’s Contrarian Anonymous Trolling.
Didn’t you ever read The Matrix Online Guide to Trolls?
Google it.
BTW begging me with “please” won’t work. Groveling is not acceptable. Thanks for trying though.
You anonymous, webless, cluetrainless trolls began the fight by flaming. I am merely a flame extinguisher. Happy to make your acquaintance.
bdbVaspers is VapidI’m not “anyone”, so I’m not sure it would make sense for me to “reveal” myself. Are we dating? if you make obsurd comments in large numbers w/o any attempt at insight, then you cna expect critical comments in response.
If you want to throw stones, neet me at justin.tv buddy…”bigdmbtch1″, peanut gallery 2
|||| The unprovoked flames to which I politely refer are comments #4, 31, 36, 38, 41, 44, and 45. ||||
bdb: you are a cowardly webless troll, and your excuse that “I’m not anyone” is over the top for wimpitude.
Are you a spambot then, if you have no human personality to reveal? Why meet you in that dark alley? We are having a conversation right here right now.
By which you mean: people who disagree with you. Consider us well-alerted; no one here should ever read what you write, or reply to you.
You made one very fine first impression.
Unprovoked Flame #4 was forgiven, I hasten to add.
This is not my “first impression”. I’ve been here before. But that was a few months ago, before you were born apparently.
Webless Anonymous Trolls are not only lonely and attention seeking, they are also lazy. Too sluggish to research the targets of their attacks.
I’m in more online tech social media communities than you have ever dreamed of, so battle me all over the web if you wish.
It’s my sick and slick masochism that draws you to me, eh?
You mean there. are. more….Webless Anonymous Trolls around here? Surely you must be joking.
It’s Oxycodone, good night.
troll
Trolls, when cornered and exposed, resort to:
1. squealing “commands” (”stop! be quiet~! go y!==”)
2. accusing the troll spotter of being a troll (trollish table turning)
3. acting wounded and innocent
4. pretending to not remember they start the flaming
5. refusing to reveal their real identities, if they have any
6. accusing the troll spotter of being “on something” or other juvenile tomfooleries
7. betraying their true desire to disrupt an online social tech community
8. making further slurs, but deflecting retaliatory replies with cries of hurt and outrage, often accompanied by multiple exclamation points
They *never* reveal who they are.
Anonymous Contrarian Trolls are big and juicy, and taste best with a Blue Moon with orange slice.
vaspers the grate get lost. you’re not contributing to the discussion about the blog post.
I am contributing to the extinguishing of flames against Tech Crunch.
smart move: go look at what I contributed to the original thread of this post, until the Contrarian Anonymous Troll wimps tried to attack TechCrunch.
smart move embedded my blog URL into his comment. I hope he gets a grip on his Ritalin and Harry Potter abuse soon.
smart move: and what have you contributed, or are you a gutless lurker?
Ladies, relax.
Jesus…it’s a f**king Firefox extension. Go outside…wow.
@xxdesmus: good one, friend. Like he said. LOL
@bob, have some life dude. I have no problems with ads. I only talked about not being upfront about it.
Hey everyone, I kinda got lost following the last 70 or so comments since my last one, but we’re switching the links to open new tabs. That should be ready monday. We are also going to correct the little bug next to the ads.
@ BDB #36: we hadn’t thought of a ticker like thing, but its a good idea. allowing the input will be tough though.
in response to the flame war above, i am speachless.
#48 (vaspers the grate): A lot more than what you think. Several Firefox extensions as well, some quite more complex than this one, but that’s not important, is it? It’s a nice extension, I just don’t understant why would it cost $1,000 to develop. My guess is that something like that could be done in less than 10 hours - QA provided for free - which can be done by any seasoned programmer in his spare time (=cost zero) in just a few days. Now, if you’re paying someone else $100/hour, then so be it.
Anyway, my comment was more a joke than anything else. The irony market is in an all-time low I guess. Take it easy.
Clearly Digg has let some of its more stellar members out to play in the CrunchComments.
I’d only add: IM and their API are essential onramps for Twitter — not just web and SMS; in fact, I primarily use Gtalk and TwitterBerry on my phone with Twitter — never SMS.
Oh, and the new m.twitter.com is brilliant.
We have posted a review of Twitbin called Twitbin - The firefox twitter plug in with ads.
The Twitter Community and Forums
http://www.twittown.com
For the opera users: http://widgets.opera.com/widget/6522
@ bdb - thanks for the feedback. I agree that some stuff is “stealth” but oftentimes “stealth” is a coverup for “we don’t really have a business model. We’ll try to get a lot of users and then figure out what to do.” Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. Sometimes it remains to be seen - Meebo is a great example. Cool app with lots of traction but not sure of how they’ll make a dime.
I think you’re spot on that I look like the anti-TC, but I have a real start-up that I work at and TechCrunch does have a lot of good articles, it’s just trending towards crappier ones recently.
@ vaspers - I don’t eat out of a trash bin becuase I work at a place that makes money. You didn’t refute any of my arguments and resorted to name calling. By your own definition of a troll that makes you one and lest you use your own (oh but you’re calling me a troll), grow up and read my blog. Have any arguments? Write them down. Be constructive.