"I agree somewhat, although she has teams of people that she pays to think for her! There is no way she can come up with policy on her own!" - Dustin Mooney
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Dustin" - Dustin Mooney
Yeah, but it was good. The US Army hated it. My uncle (who is in the Army) said that a lot of it was true, however they do tend to get valuable information from these people! - Dustin Mooney via Alert Thingy
Hmm, both 7.9 and 8 have a problem displaying new tweets after a few minutes. scrolling down then up makes them magically appear... - Rick Mahn via twhirl
@Rick Mahn Noticing the same and it's irritating me - Corvida via twhirl
its good, still needs filters to remove double tweets from people in friendfeed and twitter, and I should be able to see all the comments without needing the browser. Isn't that the point of a desktop app? no browser usage? - BCK via twhirl
Using Twhirl Version 0.8... It's great! The only thing I would like more is the ability to use one feed which would push FriendFeed and Twitter into the same stream and allow me to post to both from the same stream! - Dustin Mooney via twhirl
Good stuff - nice addition! I would love to have it in a single integrated window with some nice filtering, but the addition of FF is a nice start. - Kevin Johnson
Can I suggest to make it an option to combine the windows? I would want the feedfriend to be separate to my twitter - I also want to be able to decide to have one open and one closed. Like you can now for different twitter accounts. Sure make it an option to do so but also not to. - Dave Gray
Working well most of the time. The friend feed window sometimes locks up when I try to navigate between friends and any of the other view buttons. OS X 10.5 Intel. Anyone else have those problems? - Jeremy Kunz via twhirl
Yeah, seems that there must be a fair load on the servers - Dave Gray via twhirl
I like Alert Thingy's UI better but if twhirl goes single-window, it'll be hard to beat. - Akiva Moskovitz via twhirl
I must say, I do prefer Alert Thingy (still). It looks prettier and i like that it expands comments in its own window instead of going to the FF site like twhirl. If I wanted that, I'd be using the site not twhirl. Still, the first client to integrate twitter/FF into one stream, and eliminate duplicate tweets will get my vote - David Adam via twhirl
If you follow too many Twitters and FriendFeeds, there is a need to have two windows to sort out everything. How about having the option to use one or two windows. Two windows works for me. - Freddie Avalos via twhirl
Interesting point Freddie makes. Perhaps remove the Twitter messages from FF if you allow merged Windows. That way you only see the Twitter messages once. - Richard Giles via twhirl
Perhaps the combined window could be an option. I don't know which I would prefer. Right now, I think I like the two windows. But, as others have said, it will be great when we are able to filter out Twitter messages so they don't show up on FriendFeed window as well as the Twitter window. - Gregory Pittman via twhirl
Loic, please get Twhirl to open links in a new tab, not a new window. Skype can do it. - Mick Liubinskas
Why does Twhirl insist on using IE instead of my default browser (Flock)? is it only me? gngngngn - Kamath via twhirl
Thanks for the release! I wish it has "per web service" filtering just like MySocial 24x7. That would make the thing much more useful.. :) - Leon Ho
Not sure if this is the best place to comment about this, but on MacOSX 10.5.2, there's some weird kerning issues in the FF comment box, specifically with the 'w' eg where is that space coming from - http://skitch.com/jordanbrock/... - Jordan Brock via twhirl
would also be great to collapse a FF notification, because this particular one looks like it is going to consume the top of my FF window for a while, and I'd like to see others :) - Richard Giles via twhirl
So what's it gonna be, thwirl or alert thingy? both have pretty much the same features now I guess.. - Leo Koivulehto via Alert Thingy
Hidden entries integration keeps me with Alert Thingy for the moument. I'll also add my voice to having the option to combine windows, auto removing the dupes, and expanding comments in the client. - Tony Miller via Alert Thingy
And I really hope one or the other lets you sort by service soon. - Tony Miller via Alert Thingy
Great ! I'd like to filter some services... You know like Twitter that appears twice (Twitter and FriendFeed window)... - Sanji (Jean-Daniel S.) via twhirl
Also, both clients are missing an in client player for the things like YouTube favorites and Seesmic posts. Come to think of it, the only reason I end up keeing either client running is for the desktop notifications. Other than that the Friendfeed website itself is still a much better experience. But I guess its all still new and will be sorted out over time. - Tony Miller
Not a lot of luck getting this to work. Comes up fine but doesn't update the screen, unable to open anything. - 2WheelTech
"Thanks so much for your response Matt. I think that it sounds like SocialThing is well on its way. I was interested in your company because of a friend that told me about it, after testing and comparing it to FriendFeed, I see some strengths as well as weaknesses as mentioned above.
I am happy to see that you guys are all over it though. I will stay tuned to SocialThing for more features and hopefully you will come out on top. There are a lot of new companies popping up in this type market, and so I am interested to see who (if any ONE company) comes out on top.
Thanks again!" - Dustin Mooney
"It might not be an iPhone or even a BlackBerry but it works real well and I like it. However, for my next phone I am going to try to get a smartphone." - Dustin Mooney
"Yes, but Yahoo has some advantages which Microsoft doesn't. It's mail is one of those things. It also has a big portion of the search market... by buying them Microsoft would become a bigger player, because they would combine the two... it would make them more comparable to Google when it comes to search. Although, I do agree with your analysis of Yahoo being an antique." - Dustin Mooney