"If you hit the “?” key on your keyboard, it will bring up an overlay with all the different keyboard shortcuts you can use on twitter.com now. I already pointed out “n”, but “m” is also great to message someone quickly, or “r” to reply to someone quickly. You can also use “j” and “k” like you do in Gmail to page through tweets."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
good man, but there are plugins for firefox/chrome that mimic vim. Vimperrator for Firefox, can't remember the chrome one off the top of my head, i've gotten to the point where I can't browse without them.
- Scott (Honey Boo-Boo!)
Keen observation Mr. Gray. I'm actually getting pretty worn out with 5 of the 10 articles on the Google News Sci/Tech page being Apple and Google related. I love both companies but some of the shit that becomes headline worthy is amazing. "Steve Jobs said to select yellow for executive bathroom tile, what are the implications for Flash!?"
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
Geoff, I believe with your example, there are more implications for flush than Flash.
- Louis Gray
haha, flush not being supported would be a really big deal.
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
FriendFeed makes news for awesomeness...
- imabonehead
Another round of your undying love for Twitter? ;-)
- Hutch Carpenter
Maybe you'd know, Erica. Can these Android phones read books from Google Books without me having to be on the website? Like, is there a reader on them natively?
- Anika
I've never tried using Google Books on an Android. I have never seen a native app for it though. Could be wrong?
- EricaJoy
@Anika: I've not seen a native books app (though I haven't looked much), but the web app works reasonably well. It seems to do enough page caching to keep me going through patchy connectivity on the train, at least. If you have specific requests, please let me know -- I've got a friend who just joined the books team and can bug him at the least :)
- Joel Webber
Thanks, Joel. I know it may be nitpicky, but my thought is that if I'm getting a Google phone, I want *all* Google services available on it. I do miss reading books on my phone and my current one doesn't allow for it.
- Anika
Why are phone advertisers using the same type of slogan ("NOW the web is on the phone", "web meets phone", "take the web with you" etc.) for years?
- Philipp Lenssen
Louis, i like the response further down that same thread that said they thought when their mom said someone was a premadonna that meant she (the mom) thought that the person would grow up to be like Madonna
- Chris Heath
I believed there was no color prior to 1952, until I was 12, and started wondering how Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, if he didn't know what colors he was using.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I used to believe that no matter how much two people might disagree on a particular issue, with enough time and effort they could always work back to fundamental principles they could agree on, then work forward logically and resolve the disagreement.
- Ken Sheppardson
Amazing lols: "Actual conversation with my roommate, reading the wikipedia page on Lady Gaga: Him: "How does her line feel about her doing this?" Me: "Her line? Like her family? I think they don't care, and even if they did, there's not much they could do about it." Him: "Don't they worry she's ruining their reputation? I thought being in the peerage carried extra responsibilities." Me:...
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- Sasha Kovaliov
from Bookmarklet
scottkarp: I'm sorry Twitter search is a joke. Can't search further back then a few weeks. It's not just about real-time, it's a permanent record. - http://twitter.com/scottka...
Twitter needs to technically fix the search instead of decorating it.
- Ashish
from iPhone
Maybe they could acquire a third party search service...
- Ken Sheppardson
Maybe they could just start taking this shit seriously?
- Andy Bakun
my tweets have disappeared off the public search timeline since the DoS attacks. Twitter's a free service and customer service reflects it...
- Sherrie Rose
Twitter has been a joke for two years. Problem is too many people enjoy using it. It's a shame people didn't move away from twitter. Pity for those people.
- Richard A.
Totally agreed. I had a personal hash-tag for so many tweets just so that I could maintain some records.All are gone now :(
- Sujay
Despite all the problems I do like that I can narrow my search geographically. That is something I wish I could do with FriendFeed. I would also like to search for new friends geographically.
- Skyler Call
Question: Why would anybody need to search twitter back more than a couple of weeks? I don't see how Tweets hold any value for that long. Do you save all your SMS Text messages too?
- Otto
Otto wins! If it's something worth saving, blog it, or put it somewhere that's yours, not Twitter's, or Tumblr's or anyone else's. Oye...
- Mike Lewis
Why are you sorry that a product you're not responsible for is a joke?
- Trent Hamm
If Twitter does come up with a good search functionality, then I want the ability to purge my tweets after some period of time. I don't want my messages being permanent records.
- Otto
What Twitter did to their search earlier in the Spring was a huge surprise to me as I used it regularly. The changes they made did not raise much of a huff then, so my read was that few people understand and make use of these search capabilities. While the friendfeed search has room for growth which we may not see now with the buyout, it is clearly one of the main reasons I decided to make this my social media home.
- Richard Reeve
Once in a while I think to myself how much data does the Internet want to keep, and why does it matter. Wouldn't it be better if there was a national library online that wasn't putting a load on the Internet from keeping so much useless data (which Twitter mostly has, BTW...)
- David Libby
My sense is that the dross is an inevitable by product, and what one might consider dross might be valuable to another for very different reasons, some of which we might not even recognize yet. Regardless of the system, I'm for archiving the entire unfolding transcript...
- Richard Reeve
Is FF search really much better? Trying to find things older than a few days or weeks is damn near impossible.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, while FF only returns about 630 or items back, once you apply searches by keyword, that is more than enough to get you back all the way to the beginning of your Twitter, etc. record kept within FF. And that is the value, Otto, that before you could use Twitter as a very handy, "self-tagging" (by way of your tweet context) bookmark repository, etc. Sometimes you do want to find out what (specific) people said during a given conference, during a major event, sentiment trends over time, etc. etc.
- Alex Schleber
@Otto42, agreed that you should be able to opt out for privacy reasons, then again, you already sort of can by protecting your updates (granted that won't get your old tweets out of Twitter Search & FF, etc. databases).
- Alex Schleber