General scaling
All scales are calculated as being between 0 and 1.
A scale can be used as a multiplier for the tweet position as well as being scaled by an effect value.
tweet position = (formula) * (formula) ....
where
formula = scale * effect
ie
tweet position = (chronological order)
* (feed importance scale * feed important effect)
Feed scaling
Feed...
Twipler is all about control, filtering and ordering.
At its’ core it will provide theme developers with algorithms and functionality to build and combine these options and refine the users experience. This is based on theme-able formula for tweet position.
Tweet position.
Regular twitter orders all tweets in chronological order.
tweet position = chronological...
I’m struggling with a dilemma. Progress with twipler is coming along nicely bearing in mind this project could take 6 months or more until it’s ready for the general public. However, a twitter web client really needs to have direct message, followers and trending information. Public timeline and status update is not enough.
So my dilemma is; do I include “twipler script” as part of the...
Html templates
A Twipler theme defines an HTML template which contains key fields and actionable items. For example, each tweet will have the persons name, image and name to name a few fields.
A ‘tweet’ template may look like
<div class="tweet">
<img src="#-field personImageUrl-#" alt="#-field personName-#" />
<h3>#-field personName-#</h3>
<p>#-field...
Original vision statement. Now outdated and updated.
What is it?
Twitter is a web application which shows tweet feeds from people you follow in chronological order.
Twipler is* an open source web application which shows tweet feeds from people you follow in a theme-able importance then chronological order. *(when it’s completed)
Hmm... sounds interesting. Tell me more.
Well I...
(quick draft)
Once you have logged into Twipler using OAuth, you can store your twipler session by setting a password.
1 - Login to twipler (the big blue button, not the old mechanism)
2 - Select "designs" from the top right
3 - Select "user" tab
4 - Supply a new password to protect your session.
5 - Logout
6 - From the homepage, select 'Show Login Options'
7 - Enter your screenname...
It looks like DM's aren't working in twipler. I really should fix up this site! - Thu, 14 Jul 2011
RT @John_Idol Twitter explains why developers shouldn’t build new clients --> http://t.co/D3wpqfM via @tnwtwit - Mon, 14 Mar 2011
I am still alive by-the-way :) - Tue, 21 Dec 2010
When tweets have a Geo location, you'll get a link to google maps to that lat/long - Wed, 03 Nov 2010
Check unfollowed isn't working. I'll be looking into it today. - Wed, 27 Oct 2010
Retweets now being shown in timeline and user timeline. - Thu, 30 Sep 2010
178 Absolute Unique Visitors last week. I wonder how much of that was due to last weeks Javascript bug on twitter, or #newtwitter :) - Mon, 27 Sep 2010