Comments on: Using Google Talk to IM home to Twitter

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Sat, 24 May 2008 12:11:12 +0000

Frosty : Have you switched on IM notifications and entered your Google Talk details in your Twitter settings? It SHOULD work.

By: Frosty

Frosty — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:40:57 +0000

Edit, I’m taking about writing messages in Google Talk , whatever I write in Google Talk shows up on the twiter.com/home page for my friends to see, but I do NOT receive any replies of any sort.

thanks guys !

Frosty

By: Frosty

Frosty — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:40:00 +0000

Hello,

I can SEND messages to Twitter but I do NOT get any messages,
how come ?

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:50:29 +0000

@cwrc : yes you are tracking a keyword which is bringing up those tweets. So if you’re tracking say Google, anytime someone mentions Google, you’re getting those tweets. Clear your keyword tracking by entering into Twitter “track off”. You can see more info on it here – http://blog.twitter.com/2007/09/tracking-twitter.html

By: cwrc

cwrc — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:13:05 +0000

I am now receiving tweets from random twitterers whom I am not following, and not from those that I am, any thought on how to fix? weird
@cwrc11

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:21:44 +0000

Just use Twhirl if you can’t stand the 140chars limit – Twhirl shows you the number of chars entered.

By: How to open up multiple instances of Google Talk

How to open up multiple instances of Google Talk — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:01:52 +0000

[...] There seems to be no limit to the number of Google Talk’s you can run at the same time. As well as maintaining several chat personas, you can also have multiple Talk’s open to check the email for different Gmail accounts or to update to different Twitter accounts. [...]

By: Mark O'Neill

Mark O'Neill — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:28:23 +0000

@Fairminder : that’s a good point about the 140 character limit. There’s no real solution. I have just learned to estimate it well!

By: Fairminder

Fairminder — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:12:52 +0000

I use Trillian for IM, but have not figured out how to tell when my Twitter post is nearing 140 characters. So, I stopped using IM to send Twitter posts. Do you have a solution besides my index finger.

Your point about notifications is invaluable. I was really getting distracted with the many notifications chirping away. You see I turned off notifications in Outlook a year ago. Nice and quiet around here.