Twiddict: methadon for Twitter addicts
Written on June 9, 2008 – 11:14 am
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
@robinwauters, @tomklaasen, @tijs, and @atog are Twitter addicts. So every time there’s “something technically wrong” on their beloved microblogging service, their world crashes into them. Basically a cold turkey is awaiting these guys every single damn day, over and over again. They HAD to find a solution, as their dealers Evan Williams and Biz Stone haven’t proved to be very helpful so far. So they used the last strength in their Twitter-tortured bodies to find a way to cope with this destructive life style. Well, in the end, these junkies found one and - self-conscious as they are - called it Twiddict.
One of the addicts used a probably stolen laptop to email me some background about Twiddict:
The way it works, is pretty straightforward: users can log in to their Twitter account and use Twiddict to keep sending their messages as they are used to. Twiddict then continuously pings the Twitter API to see if it’s up again, and routes the stored messages back as soon as it’s stable.
To see it in action, go to Twiddict and log in with your Twitter account details. Don’t worry, these guys are “maniacally protective of users’ data”. Sure, like you take an addict’s word for granted.
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By Sarah on Jun 9, 2008
Dugg!
I love it! Great work! We might need it tonight :-)
By Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on Jun 9, 2008
Ah yes, we had this as a feature built into TwitterMail.com right from the start. When you email to Twittermail and Twitter is down our service just keeps trying until it comes up again. Works very well!
By web design on Jun 9, 2008
The service looks good for those who are very active on Twitter, and for those bloggers, who feed their twitter stream with their blog posts at consistent pace.