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Re: 2007/12/05/twitter-giveth-twitter-taketh-away/

Chad W Smith — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:34:04 -0000

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Re: 2007/12/05/twitter-giveth-twitter-taketh-away/

Mark \ — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:29:10 -0000

Tracking has been broken on me and several others for a number of weeks now. Gabe alerted me a few days ago with his tweet. I went thru my logs, and haven't recieved a track alert for at least a couple weeks.

Re: 2007/12/05/twitter-giveth-twitter-taketh-away/

Mark \ — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:28:06 -0000

Hrm.

Perhaps you're right. I read the help documentation, and it didn't really enumerate that clearly. I'm looking at the way I ran my test with it, too, and it could go either way.

I'll put a message in to Twitter and see if I'm on target or if you're right. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Re: 2007/12/05/twitter-giveth-twitter-taketh-away/

Barb — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:17:31 -0000

Hmmm...Twitter tracking to IM was still working for me as of a few hours ago. Cool feature - would miss it if it's really gone...

Re: 2007/12/05/twitter-giveth-twitter-taketh-away/

Mark Smithivas — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:42:36 -0000

I could be wrong, but I don't think the new @options they rolled out would do what you ask for. The "show all" option only shows you all the @'s that people you follow issue, even if you don't mutually follow the person the @ is directed to.

If you want to track if anyone in the twitterverse mentions your name, you'd still need to use the track feature, as it wouldn't be caught using the "show all". Or as mdy says, use Terraminds, Tweetscan, or Twittersearch.

Clear as mud?

Re: 2007/12/05/twitter-giveth-twitter-taketh-away/

mdy — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:19:16 -0000

I'm surprised to read in this post that Twitter Track is gone, because I'm still getting Track alerts on my IM. The last track alert I received was from two hours ago, so I'm fairly sure it's working.

Prior to this new replies feature from Twitter, I'd been relying on Terraminds Twitter search to look for messages addressed to me that I may have missed. They provide an RSS for searches too. See http://terraminds.com/twitter