We just introduced a couple new items to profiles that some of you may be interested in: Twitter & Facebook! Even more exciting, we are beta testing Twitter syncing, which gives you the option to have your minibar sentence (the "status" sentence up by your name) sync with Twitter -- your tweets will update your minibar sentence (except tweets with an @ in them -- we ignore those).

Please note that we are currently limiting the number of people that may use this sync service, so the option may not be available to you.

This feature is BETA which means that the service may be altered, removed, unavailable, etc at any time, without notice. We expect there will be bugs and kinks to work out, so please let us know if you run into any by posting to this thread.

Please report all bugs and feedback related to Twitter in this thread

Niobe

I'm lost

April 2003

JAN 14, 2010 12:19 PM

This is awesome. Thanks.

This isn't a bug, but it drove me crazy at first.....when filling in the twitter section of your profile, you don't need your whole link. Just /andthenyourname. Or did everyone already know that already?

Dryad

Asheville, NC

July 2008

JAN 14, 2010 12:54 PM

Ooh, thanks!

Goatfish

Los Angeles, CA

September 2004

JAN 14, 2010 01:17 PM

Cool!

penso

France

August 2008

JAN 14, 2010 01:32 PM

Why not using Twitter oauth instead, so you can pull out from private profiles too.

Also if you use the Twitter streaming API you can fetch tweets for all SG users within one http stream, I use it for http://4push.com, one of my iPhone application.

Sonja

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

JAN 14, 2010 01:32 PM

wohoo!

Ferretbite

Mexico

September 2006

JAN 14, 2010 01:40 PM

I love it!

gigantic

Belleville, ON

August 2008

JAN 14, 2010 01:42 PM

Niobe said:
This is awesome. Thanks.

This isn't a bug, but it drove me crazy at first.....when filling in the twitter section of your profile, you don't need your whole link. Just /andthenyourname. Or did everyone already know that already?

I figured it was pretty straightforward since the whole url didn't fit. /: But that's just me.

Edited to add: I love this. Works for me (:

Posh

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

JAN 14, 2010 01:57 PM

do want!

Ridley

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

JAN 14, 2010 02:03 PM

Sweet!

Niobe

I'm lost

April 2003

JAN 14, 2010 02:13 PM

gigantic said:

I figured it was pretty straightforward since the whole url didn't fit. /: But that's just me.

Edited to add: I love this. Works for me (:

As it was new...I thought perhaps the whole URL did not fit, because it was a bug. With the others you have to put the whole link, there was no reason to think Twitter would be different. Just thought I'd give a heads up to those who might come in here wondering why it wasn't fitting.

Nixie

United Kingdom

March 2006

JAN 14, 2010 02:56 PM

not a bug, more a suggestion, but how about individual levels of privacy for these. i like the idea of people on my friends list being able to find me on facebook, but only my friends.

Ridley

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

JAN 14, 2010 02:57 PM

Hmm. I have the sync checkbox option and just tested a few tweets with it, but it's not updating my status. Does the status have to be blank first or does it take time to sync?

Dryad

Asheville, NC

July 2008

JAN 14, 2010 03:03 PM

Niobe said:

gigantic said:

I figured it was pretty straightforward since the whole url didn't fit. /: But that's just me.

Edited to add: I love this. Works for me (:

I actually read Niobe's post before I went to my profle, so this helped me.

maxx

Los Angeles, CA

July 2002

JAN 14, 2010 03:20 PM

and now my recent activity feed is a twitter feed.

...terrif. :|

Pip

Framingham, MA

OLD SKOOL

JAN 14, 2010 03:21 PM

I like the auto synching idea, although it is not for me. I am glad that you guys are bringing in other social media services.

Ridley

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

JAN 14, 2010 03:26 PM

Ridley said:
Hmm. I have the sync checkbox option and just tested a few tweets with it, but it's not updating my status. Does the status have to be blank first or does it take time to sync?

nevermind. It seems it just takes time to sync. Working now.

Smythe

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

JAN 14, 2010 03:30 PM

Maxx said:
and now my recent activity feed is a twitter feed.

...terrif. :|

I was kinda worried that that might happen.

Bexi

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

JAN 14, 2010 03:32 PM

Maxx said:
and now my recent activity feed is a twitter feed.

...terrif. :|

That is why I just deactivated my filter on minibar sentences. I think it´s going to be too much info for me.

Other than that it seems to be a nice thing to offer.

PHB

Chicago, IL

May 2007

JAN 14, 2010 03:46 PM

Is this just in one direction (from Twitter to SG) or both directions?

Nixie

United Kingdom

March 2006

JAN 14, 2010 03:49 PM

PHB said:
Is this just in one direction (from Twitter to SG) or both directions?

i would guess one way seen as i'm assuming sg would need some form of authentication before it could access your twitter to post there, which it doesn't seem to ask for.

zenFish

Vancouver, BC

August 2004

JAN 14, 2010 03:49 PM

Oh, this is bad, I post to twitter enough as it is. heh.

Any ideas if SG will ever make a iphone friendly site, or a iphone app?