Update: Our account is back. Twitter got back to us much quicker than before. Just a few days instead of several weeks. We’ve modified @ReStreamAlerts to send out updates 4 times a day instead of hourly. Hopefully this change and a few others currently in the works will prevent the suspension bot from hitting us.
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Banned Again From Twitter
Thursday, July 1st, 2010How to Share the Tweets You Favorite
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010Make the most of the tweets you favorite by making them easier to browse and share.
One of the most overlooked features of Twitter is Twitter favorites. You can favorite any post in Twitter that you like or you want to reference at a later date. The problem with Twitter favorites is the more you use them, the harder it is to reference them later. You can only scroll through them in a descending date order.
Adding Value to Twitter Favorites Through Filtering
Friday, March 26th, 2010Favoriting tweets is one of the most under-used features of Twitter but one of the most valuable. I use Twitter favorites for bookmarking content. If there’s a link I like or some content I want to read, I favorite it so I can reference it later. Unfortunately, the more you use favorites as bookmarks the harder it is to use.
The downside to Twitter favorites is that you can only look through them in the order that you saved them, one page at a time. This makes all that great content you favorited very difficult to reference. To fix this, I’ve added some new filtering features on ReStream.me.
Filtering Twitter Favorites
Yesterday, I added two new filters to Twitter favorites: filter by tag and filter by author. Once you import your favorites, you can select any of your top 15 tags or top 10 authors to find related favorites. You can also view any page of favorites so jumping to any favorite is much easier.
To get started, log into ReStream.me using Twitter. Import your favorites (step 3 in the sign up process) and go to your recommendations page. Once there, click on “favorite tweets” in the navigation to go to your Twitter favorites. Happy filtering!
Twitter Growth Strong Despite Increased Competition
Monday, February 15th, 2010Twitter has received a lot negative publicity lately. The number of new registrations has dropped dramatically over the past couple of months. Despite this, Twitter continues to have an impressive amount of “tweets” or messages sent across its service and it continues to grow.
Last week Twitter crossed the 9 billion tweet mark. Incredible considering Twitter crossed the 5 billion mark just 4 months ago. Averaging over 300 million tweets per week means that Twitter will hit the 10 billion mark at the beginning of March.
Other statistics from the past week:
- Tweets per week increased of 5% over previous week
- 47,455,890 Tweets per Day
- 1,977,329 Tweets per Hour
- 32,955 Tweets per Minute
- 549 Tweets per Second
Right now, it takes just over 3 weeks to add 1 billion tweets. Twitter didn’t pass the 1 billion tweet mark until November of 2008. It took them another year to add another 4 billion tweets. At the current pace, they’ll easily add another 12+ billion this year.
Clearly, Twitter is still a very popular service and it is continuing to grow. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll see if they can continue to keep this momentum or if services such as Google Buzz will start to eat away at it’s popularity.
ReStream.me Mobile: The Twitter Discovery Engine Goes Where You Go
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Today is launch day for ReStream.me Mobile. Now you can access the ReStream.me discovery engine from everywhere. Highlight from the new web application include:
- Filter your Twitter stream based on links and trends
- Receive ReStream.me’s content recommendations
- View the most popular content currently being shared on Twitter
- Highlighted content keeps you updated on what your favorite Twitter users are publishing
ReStream.me Mobile is free. You just need a Twitter account to get started.
New Mobile Twitter App for Managing Information Overload
Monday, February 8th, 2010ReStream.me Mobile is now live!
ReStream.me Mobile is almost ready for launch. Soon you will have many of the great filtering and sharing features of ReStream.me every where you go.
Highlights include:
- Real-time Twitter Stream: Transforms tweets from your stream into web page titles.
- Twitter Trends: See what links are trending from your stream.
- Recommendations: Receive recommendations based on your interests.
- Most Popular: See the most popular links currently being tracked by ReStream.me
- FavMe: Just like ReStream.me, you can favorite people. The people you favorite influences the content ReStream.me recommends.
- Highlights: A highlight area shows recent Tweets from the people you’ve favorited or content recommendations from ReStream.me
- Tweet, ReTweet, Favorite Tweets, and more…
The ReStream.me mobile web app has been optimized for the iPhone. If you would like to preview this release, please send me an email and I’ll send you a link. If you run into issues using another mobile platform please let me know. I want to make this accessible to everyone but I don’t have other platforms to test on.
ReStream Update: Better Tagging, Recommendations, and Performance
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Over the past week I’ve made several updates to ReStream.me.
One of these updates caused some tagging issues. You may notice some links have several unrelated tags. Please ignore this for now. It will be flushed from the system over the next 24 hours.
Changes:
- More links now have tags associated with them.
- The home page was simplified to help new visitors to better understand the value of ReStream
- You can mark links as read on your recommended reading page. This is only used to give you access to more recommended content as we only display the top 15 links. Soon you will be able to mark a link as like/unlike to further improve ReStream recommendations.
- User pages – displayed when you click on a persons image – now show the top tags related to this person. We’ll be using this information in a future update to recommend people you should follow.
- Performance Updates: I’ve made better use of caching while still giving you a real-time look at the data. Several database queries have also been reconfigured to speed up
