You Didn’t Realize It, But You Really Want Those Twitter Messages In Your Calendar

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1. Xavier
   

   April 26th, 2008 at 3:23 am

   Thumbs up, but would also rather be able to upload individual ones myself as and when.

   

2. Dan Schulz
   

   April 26th, 2008 at 3:27 am

   I can see where this would be useful for some people, but I don’t think it’s got what it takes to be a general everyday tool for the majority of Twitter users (myself included). Especially given the volume of messages that even small followings can accumulate in a single day.

   What would be useful though is if the service allowed individual messages to be synced to the calendar, rather than having the calendar flooded by a deluge of Twitter updates.

3. Martin Jamieson
   

   April 26th, 2008 at 3:29 am

   Thumbs up - would be useful if you used your account strictly for business purposes, CRM etc. getting a timeline of when contact was made with customers etc. would be pretty handy I think.

4. wisher
   

   April 26th, 2008 at 3:42 am

   Oh my god, that’s madness!

5. Tom
   

   April 26th, 2008 at 3:49 am

   he went to my school i think

6. Project
   

   April 26th, 2008 at 3:52 am

   Or simply somtething like an exercise or diet log. I can see uses.

7. Sunil
   

   April 26th, 2008 at 4:05 am

   Twitter Everywhere

8. Martin Jamieson
   

   April 26th, 2008 at 4:06 am

   @Project - yeah, if you could say, import only tweets that contain a hashtag you specify, say like #exercise you could get some handy little displays.

9. Mich
   

   April 26th, 2008 at 4:16 am

   Kick-ass tool

10. Project
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 4:17 am

    @ Martin yeah. And you would have a nice calendar view of the number of meals you are eating a day as well as the times you ate them. Could be useful

11. Nicola Robinsonova
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 4:18 am

    This would be a perfect mashup to save our user’s daily word lists for future reference.

    I’ve added Twistory to our survey ‘what new feature do you need next’.

    (the learnit widget is a tool to help language learners study 10 new words every day, by the way.)

12. Duncan Riley
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 4:31 am

    Cool mashup, but a solution looking for a problem. I don’t want Tweets in iCal or Goog Cal and I cant see millions (or even tens of thousands) wanting it either.

13. Kayakman
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 4:40 am

    Over application of technology!

14. Sebastian
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 5:28 am

    It’s useful for the average Twitter-user which follows about 10 people (They said that in an interview with Scoble on FastCompany.TV), but definitely not for the TechCrunch-editors and Twitter power-users.

    It could find its usefulness.

15. Michael Kimsal
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 5:46 am

    Individual messages would become far too overwhelming for many users. What would make this useful for many more people is to bundle them hourly. Ever for people that get hundreds of messages per day, you’d still only have at most 24 entries in a day, with each one having dozens or hundreds of entries.

16. Lynx
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 6:02 am

    Seriously Mike, enough with the Twitter posts. Twitter is great if you spend 24/7 onlne and is a fun social networking tool.

    But the general population have never heard of twitter, and care even less about every app that integrates into its API.

    You love Twitter, we get it.

    Most of us just think its OK, and the apps that tag on, slightly less OK.

17. Jason
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 6:08 am

    I’m not so sure I’d want to start a company based on Twitter. Twitter itself is financially unstable.

18. Jim McNelis
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 6:33 am

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19. YouYap.com
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 6:47 am

    I am rolling out a new product that is not online yet. Do anyone know how I can raise fund? Where to get started?

20. JDA
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 7:00 am

    If this is now the type of app that makes techcrunch, no one should be surprised by a vc slow down.

21. Tijs
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 7:41 am

    @Sebastian: I wouldn’t define Twistory as an alternative to the typical Twitter clients (think Twitterific, …), rather as a way to browse your own (and perhaps a small number of friends) Twitter archive. It’s about the birdseye view, not about presence.

22. Nat
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    Excellent idea, 2 thumbs up

    Nat
    http://www.workersinc.com

23. Tim G
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    I’ve been twittering myself all morning and I’m starting to get a rash.

24. Mack
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    It would be nice to have a possibility to view chats archive of g.talk this way on g.calendar

25. Toni
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    Nice Shot!
    Cool Mashup …
    thx Toni

26. nemrut
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    Twitter users…I’m just curious how much Twitter adds to your productivity/day. Between posting updates about your activities to following user responses and replying to them, let alone tracking other Twitter users…just what percentage of your time is productive.

    Now of course none of thos takes into account email, phone calls, bio breaks, IMs, colleague face time, etc…

27. Raja
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 5:32 pm

    Belgium is spelt with IU, not UI. Might want to change that, in the crunch base site.

28. Tim Harris
    

    April 26th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

    I would love to see Twitter combined with Google trends. That would be some nice data to look at.

29. Joel de Bruijn
    

    April 27th, 2008 at 1:17 am

    For those who like a “self-hosted-tweaked” alternative:

    Tom Henderson wrote a script, which converts a RSS feed into iCal format.

    http://www.blogtender.com/2007.....d-in-ical/

    What I did:
    - setup a sub-domain, to make the script public available.
    - put MagpieRSS and your script online.
    - added a Calender in Google Calender, via URL. The URL points to your script, with the RSS feed as a parameter.
    - Looked at GCal: yes! I makes a copy of my lifestream.

    I guess it works with Twitter-feeds also. I use it to import my lifestream into iCal, for archiving and search.

    Good luck!

30. D
    

    April 27th, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    seems to be an interesting analytics tool at least

31. Dale Andrews
    

    April 27th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    You should know Robin Wauters is being called “a lying cheating shit” who is about to face a court case for corporate fraud because he shared stolen private documents with techcrunch. The source who told me said the case starts in June and Robin is not aware yet.

32. Aaron Brazell
    

    April 27th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    I agree with Duncan whole heartedly. What’s the point? Though I know I’m an exception I get thousands of tweets a day (I think)… I don’t even know how that would be displayed in iCal in any kind of sensical way *if* I even wanted it

33. Patrick
    

    April 27th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

    I could see a use for this and it’s something I’ve been doing for a while. Twitter is a nice platform for doing a mini-diary of sorts. You can post to it from a variety of interfaces. And since Google Cal lets you turn feed views on and off, you don’t need to keep it on all the time. But when you want to review, just turn off the other calendars and view the Twitter feed only.

34. Clo Willaerts
    

    April 28th, 2008 at 1:47 am

    @ Dale Andrews: the only one calling Robin Wauters a “a lying cheating shit” is… you. And now we’re all wondering why.

35. Toon Vanagt
    

    April 28th, 2008 at 2:47 am

    @ Ranting Dale Andrews: I have worked with Robin Wauters for many years and hope to do so for many more. Lying and cheating can only be associated with Robin, when it comes to exposing ‘lying cheating chits’. Grow up , become a man, stop using anonymous sources and yet to be started court cases.

36. Robin Wauters
    

    April 28th, 2008 at 4:55 am

    @Dale Andrews: I never lie or cheat, which sometimes causes problems with certain people in certain situations, but in the end being ethical works for me in the long term. Anyone who knows me or has ever worked with me can confirm that.

    I don’t know who you are and where your comment is coming from, but I know your comment is not based on any facts. Personally, I think you’re a bit delusional. The source who told me said you’re a nutcase and Dale isn’t even aware of it yet.

37. Miles (SEM iCluck)
    

    April 29th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

    Twitter, Twitter, Twitter — There must be some use for this program like all the other Twitter mashups =oP. What do you guys think?