TomJ | # 71 | 2010-03-23, 11:34 | Report

Nota bene: here be dragons. Software in -devel has not been through the quality checks of software in the main Extras repo and may cause unintended problems on your device, even unto rendering it unusable. Do not go there if you are not familiar with the potential issues and confident of being able to resolve them.

grog | # 72 | 2010-03-24, 20:09 | Report

Sorry if this seem dense, but I've gone through this thread & obviously something isn't clear to me.

I haven't been a twitter fan up 'til now so am not a all familiar with the service, but after noticing this great app I figured 'd try it out . I've started following several news tweets, and while I can see recent updates on the web page nothing has come to my phone even though I've entered my account info & my Availability is a green dot. Is this the "issue" that we can't see tweets not addressed specifically to us? TX

generationally | # 73 | 2010-03-25, 07:36 | Report

In order to receive the tweets as they happen you will have to have your Twitter Timeline contact open.

So open Contacts and find the contact named Timeline. This will open the IM window and it will update and then show the tweets from your Timeline. Keep this IM window open and you will get the new tweets whenever they happen.

This is a rather clever way of doing it. The user then gets to decide whether he wants to be alerted in real time about new tweets or not. This is probably quite useful for those who are following hundreds of Twitter users

grog | # 74 | 2010-03-25, 15:54 | Report

Thanks for that. I agree, it works & is very clever. I'll try reading news this way for a while instead of through google news & see how it goes.

One "problem" I've noticed is that I'll clear all the messages & the next few updates will only show the new tweets, then all of a sudden I'll get 20 tweets all at once, new ones plus a pile of old. Is that a bug or just "the way it works"?

TX

deans6571 | # 75 | 2010-03-25, 16:41 | Report

Like others have posted before me, I'm also having issues signing in. I've installed the plug-in but whenever I go to create a new account, after entering my Twitter username & password, the plug-in just sits there doing nothing...?! Also, when I click on the Advanced tab, there are no settings whatsoever - it's completely blank??!

I don't even get that spinning icon that shows it's trying to sign in.....it literally just does nothing?! I've tried uninstalling & rebooting my device but it's still giving me the same issue....

Shall I just keep trying or is there something else that's stopping it from working...?

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grog | # 76 | 2010-03-25, 18:13 | Report

Update. It seems that it's not just re-displaying the last 20 when a new post comes in, it's doing it even when there hasn't been anything new since the last update.

generationally | # 77 | 2010-03-25, 19:13 | Report

On the first page of this post the Options of the twitter plug-in are explained. It says about one of them:

Maybe this has something to do with it. But I don't really understand what that means Also I cannot access the options anymore so I can't really play around with it to see what difference the option makes Anyway I also sometimes get the old tweets again - somehow it seems to happen whenever the phone temporarily loses connection and gets back online. So it might be a feature or it might be a bug?!

grog | # 78 | 2010-03-25, 19:41 | Report

Thanks for quoting that for me. I would have just said RTFM! I've switched off that option & will see what happens.

After you open the Conversations app, you select Accounts, select your twitter account & then select Advanced Settings.

I figure it's because I have Autodisconnect installed, so it's effectively logging back in every time. That's just a theory.

TX

deans6571 | # 79 | 2010-03-26, 14:06 | Report

......I've been trying this again today but it still not letting me sign in?! This is very odd because it's still not giving me the spinning icon to show that at least it's trying to sign in...??? And also, the 'Advanced' tab is still showing absolutely NO options whatsoever - the whole 'Advanced' tab is just a black box - there are no white boxes to enter ANY settings...?! Is the app corrupt or something?!

grog | # 80 | 2010-03-26, 18:20 | Report

I've changed this option back-n-forth several times & don't notice any difference. I have noticed that it seems that old messages are only retrieved when there aren't any new ones. The times when there are new messages it'll only retrieve & report the new one(s).

I had left the timeline contact open overnight & there were over 300 new messages, but I could see that they were the same block of old ones, retrieved over and over again. So it doesn't make a difference if I clear the current messages or not.

TX