Treegger is based on XMPP it works with Pidgin, Adium, Miranda, iChat and any XMPP supporting IM client.

Configuring your IM client for Twitter

Any XMPP Client

For any XMPP client software you should use following setup:
Jabber ID: [your twitter account name]@twitter (for example ‘nikhilvishnu@twitter’)
Connect Server: xmpp.treegger.com with port 5223
Allow plaintext authentication (twitter doesn’t provide any other authentication method yet)
SSL/TLS (old style) required and selected

Pidgin

Username : your twitter handle
Domain : twitter
Connect server : xmpp.treegger.com
Connect port : 5223

What is Twitter @Anywhere?

Twitter @Anywhere is a platform that brings the functionality of twitter on to different websites. Now most of the twitter activities are hanging around the twitter home page and the tools which access twitter through its API. @Anywhere is a service which is similar to the facebook connect which allows websites to build community around their website. @Anywhere is more simple than facebook connect you need to have more technical knowledge for setting up facebook connect in your website.

Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone writes

Imagine being able to follow a New York Times journalist directly from her byline, tweet about a video without leaving YouTube, and discover new Twitter accounts while visiting the Yahoo! home page—and that’s just the beginning. Twitter has proven to be compelling in a variety of ways. With @anywhere, web site owners and operators will be able to offer visitors more.

Checkout a sample anywhere implementation by placing mouse over my twitter handle @nikhilvishnu. You will see a hovercard!!!.

Setting up @Anywhere in your site

Here we are going to set up @Anywhere to get the hovercards which shows a popup over the twitter handles showing the follow button and profile description. @Anywhere provides the following features.

• Auto-linkification of @ usernames
• Hovercards
• Follow buttons
• Tweet Box
• User login & signup

For integrating this to the website you only need to add a few lines of java script into the site source code. You can do it in three simple steps

Step1:  Register your website at Twitter Anywhere

Twitter @Anywhere is working like a twitter application so that you have to register your website in the twitter developer site. Go to anywhere official site and register your website by providing the details.

Twitter Anywhere registration

Step2: Add JavaScript to the header

You need to add a line of JavaScript to the header as follows

<script src="http://platform.twitter.com/anywhere.js?id=YourAPIKey&v=1"> </script>

You can find the API Key in the application details. For including this in a webpage just copy and paste this code with the API key before the </head> tag. If you are wanted to include it in your word press site include this script in header.php file located in the theme folder.

Finding Twitter Anywhere API Key

Step3: Add JavaScript to the footer

The final step for setting up twitter anywhere is adding some javascript into the footer of the site. Footer means you can include the code right before the tag </body>. Including the following code will enable the hovercards in the page.

<script>

twttr.anywhere(function(twitter) {

twitter.hovercards();

});

</script>

You can customise this code further by specifying the areas where the twitter scan for a username. Since this code contains no such specifications twitter scan the entire page and attach a hovercard over each twitter user mentioned after the ‘@’ symbol.

This is a most simple implementation of the twitter @Anywhere platform. You can find more details about the Anywhere platform and its documentation here

Twitter added a new feature in their search for showing popular tweets at the top of search results. In new twitter search top three search results will be the most popular tweets. The number of retweets for the tweet can be found at the bottom of each popular tweet.

Twitter popular search result

Tweets are featured using an algorithm. They are also using a special account for capturing the top tweets (see that account here).

Twitter toptweets account

This new search  feature is coming to API too. So the search results will be break down into three

mixed: receive both “popular tweets” and most recent tweets for the query. This is the equivalent of the future default behavior.

popular: receive only “popular tweets” for the query.

recent: receive only recent results for the query. This is the equivalent of the behavior you’ve come to expect until present

My twitter friends timeline stopped working 9 hours ago(from the time of writing) . Many twitter users are suffering from the same problem. You can see the tweets about this problem by searching in twitter (for example use “Friends timeline” ).  Not all twitter accounts are affected by this problem. Those who are affected will not see new tweets in their friends timeline. All other timelines (Global,mentions,DM) seems to be working normal.

The serious part of the problem is twitter is not speaking anything about this problem even after 9 hours. They might have updated their status blog with an update. But they are silent.

For now as a quick solution you can use twitter lists as an alternatieve for your friends timeline. Create  a list of friends and it will show their updates in the list. It can be used as an alternate for your friends timeline.

Hope twitter will resolve this issue as early as possible. Well, Its just a Twitquake na?

Fewer pages, Fast browsing

All the principle actions concentrated into the home page so browsing is faster than old one.

Home page of new orkut with all actions listed

Google bar
Google includes its navigation bar to other google services in new orkut.

New orkut google bar

Search box
Unlike old orkut you can search orkut as well as web using a single search box. Quick friend search in the old orkut is
not available in this search box.

New orkut search box

Quick colour theme selection
Colour scheme of orkut can be changed from the home page itself. Total five colour schemes are available, default is blue.

New orkut header

Status Updates
New orkut layout is giving more importance to status updates. Recent visitor area is also changed, profile pics are displayed here instead of names.

Searching Friends and communities
Finding friends is very easy in new layout. The list is dynamic. Searching is done with every keystroke

Latest activity updates
Latest activity updates are something good. You can comment on these updates from your home page, no need to go to a profile.

Commenting on activity updates

My experience
Well, Its not very easy to change over to new version all of a sudden. Bit confusing to ordinary orkut users. If you are already using facebook or twitter this interface will not make any problem. I didn’t find the new promotions option anywhere in the new layout. If you find it please let me know . Photos, status updates, videos are fine. On the whole I would say its not up to the expectation. Google have to work a lot for making it more simple and elegant.

India is the third largest market for twitter. 5 million peoples using twitter from India and the total number of twitter users is 11.5 million. They may love the service .

What is that any consumer needs to be able to use Twitter @ Airtel?

There are 3 types of consumers on Twitter –

• New User – SMS Signup to 53000
• Existing User with only a Twitter id but having linked the mobile phone to the Twitter account – SMS Signup to 53000

Existing User with a Twitter id and having linked the Mobile number to the id – The consumer will be directly active on the service. There will be nothing that the consumer will have to do.

Related Links

Airtel in twitte
Twitter in Airtel
FAQ’s
Twitter text commands for SMS

Like other services from Airtel ‘TweetSMS’ too have some nice ads. Check it out

Some guy’s decoded that message using a python script and they said that it means ” I’m feeling lucky “. Yeah there’s possibility for such a tweet. But that’snot the end of the game. Google’s second cryptic tweet appeard on its account on 4th sepetember. It was like this

1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19 http://twitpic.com/giyxf

The picture that’s attached to this tweet is google’s logo with a UFO (Unidentified flying object). google’s second ‘o’ hilighted.

Ok now comeback let’s decode the tweet. We can apply the simple pattern, A=1, B=2, C=3 etc..Then the decrypted message is “All your o are belong to us”. Huh! What does this means?. This is in reference to the meme from the early 2000s “All your base are belong to us,” a humorous saying that was popularized from a poor translation of a Japanese video game.

No one find the solution for this “Unexplained phenomenon” yet. There may be a hidden message in this puzzle or they are just kidding.Whatever its a hot topic now.

You can start pretweeting by using the app from http://pretweeting.com/ . When you register for pretweeting you will get $5,000 for buying words. You can buy  50, 100, 500, or 1000 slots with each slot equaling one word. price of each word will be calculate based on the current popularity of the word. For example if a word costs $10 then it will be mentioned in one percent of all recent tweets.

Listen  the introduction of pretweeting.com.

“Make a (virtual) profit by buying and selling words on twitter. Predict what’s going to be hot and buy it up before it hits twitter, and you’ll make a killing once people start talking about it. (no actual money required!) “.