{"id":1223,"date":"2009-04-15T14:49:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2009-04-15T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T12:49:20","slug":"splitweet-youre-my-favorite-twitter-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/splitweet-youre-my-favorite-twitter-client\/","title":{"rendered":"@Splitweet: You&#8217;re My Favorite Twitter Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#39;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\">Twitter<\/a> more and more. I recently launched a tiny web service and decided to use Twitter as a &quot;marketing&quot; platform (maybe I&#39;ll blog about this later) so I really needed a way to switch easily between multiple Twitter accounts and identity.<\/p>\n<p>The best twitter client I&#39;ve found yet is <a href=\"http:\/\/splitweet.com\/\">Splitweet<\/a>, a free web-based Twitter multi account manager, aimed at &quot;corporate and heavy users&quot;. It&#39;s great.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/splitweet.png\" alt=\"splitweet\" title=\"splitweet\" width=\"545\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/splitweet.png 545w, https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/splitweet-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Why I like Splitweet<\/h2>\n<p>In a nutshell, you can, within one dashboard screen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>easily send tweets under one or several accounts (crosstweeting) (and see an estimated cumulated audience)<\/li>\n<li>follow tweets from people you follow<\/li>\n<li>follow replies &#038; DM sent to all (or some of) your accounts<\/li>\n<li>monitor a brand reputation: get a list of tweets for any people mentionning keywords you want to watch (your full name, company name, company URL, book title&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>and last but not least, beat my corporate firewall which is blocking twitter.com. Ahah, pwned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/splitweet.com\/\">Splitweet<\/a> is definitely a tool I&#39;d use even if I had only one Twitter account, for its feature list beats Twitter hands down. The &quot;brand reputation&quot; management especially is a cool thing that integrates well Twitter&#39;s totally awesome real time search.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#39;re a Splitweet developper, read on, I have a few suggestions and feature requests :)<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Things I&#39;d like to be fixed or improved<\/h2>\n<p>There are a few little things I&#39;d love to see improved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the tweet textarea is not big enough: even if you stay under the 140 character limit, you sometimes see a little scrollbar (on FF3\/XP at least). Make it <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/jquery-elastic\/\">grow automatically<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>I&#39;m not too fan of the way the tweet textarea limits your text to 140 chars: when you hit the limit, you cannot type any more. I&#39;d rather have it the twitter way: mark that you&#39;re over limit (and disable the &quot;Send&quot; button) but let you type anyway. It&#39;s way easier to rephrase something when you can read it all, I think.<\/li>\n<li>when clicking on &quot;Reply&quot;, it should auto select the account from which you want to send the tweet (and deselect other accounts if applicable)<\/li>\n<li>why not incorporate direct messages to the &quot;Replies to your account&quot; column? To me, DM are really like replies, except they&#39;re not public, so why treat them separately? In the current interface, DM are just mostly ignored.<\/li>\n<li>messages are timestamped in a natural way, like &quot;18 minutes ago&quot;. This is neat, but when not using the auto update mode that regularly refreshes the browser window, this makes less sense. I&#39;d rather have &quot;at 12h44&quot; in that case.<\/li>\n<li>in tweets I follow, I see my own tweets. I&#39;m not sure there&#39;s a use for this, maybe it should be an option?<\/li>\n<li>same comment goes for &quot;Brands&quot;, in which I see my own messages. Now I&#39;m sure there&#39;s no need for this, please exclude my messages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The interface has a few kinks that could be improved, regarding usability and user feedback:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When I click &quot;Tweet this&quot;, I&#39;m missing an activity indicator. Did I click? Is it sending? Dunno. It also feels awkward to me that the form is not submitted in an Ajaxified way with no page reload, and makes it impossible that you refresh the page with a simple F5 (again, when not in auto-refresh mode)<\/li>\n<li>If you try to sent a DM to someone who is not following you, you get an error message, ok that&#39;s fine, but the tweet box is cleared, so you have to write everything again if you want for instance send a simple reply instead of a direct message.<\/li>\n<li>I&#39;d like to reorder the account checkboxes, so I would put those I use more often near the Tweet textarea<\/li>\n<li>I&#39;d suggest a few CSS tweaks to clearly indicate when hovering an element that it&#39;s clickable (like the &quot;Tweet it&quot; button, the accounts you select to tweet to (by the way, those ugly unstyled checkboxes don&#39;t really fit in the overall neat design, in my opinion)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Features I&#39;d like<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Inline reply viewer<\/strong>: reading a reply tweet from someone I follow to someone I don&#39;t know and not knowing what they&#39;re talking about frustrates me. It would rock to hover the &quot;in reply to @Joe&quot; link and see appear a popup showing the message that got replied. Twitter is about conversation, such a feature would be the definitive way to follow a conversation between two twitterers when you&#39;re not following both of them. For maximum awesomability, those popups would be stackable, of course: if a reply contains a &quot;in reply to @someone&quot; link, hover it to see the origin of the reply, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Link expanding<\/strong>: I&#39;d like a way to see where a tr.im or tinyurl.com link is going to send me. It would convenient to have a tooltip with the destination when hovering such a link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media embedding<\/strong>: someone linking to a youtube video? To a .jpg file? It would be a nice touch to view them inline, much like this <a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/scripts\/show\/40617\">Greasemonkey script<\/a> does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>User informations<\/strong>: when I&#39;m viewing a user profile, I miss some informations like am I following they? are they following one of my accounts? I should be able to know this before I click on the &quot;Follow&quot; button. And I want some facts and figures that will help me decide if I&#39;m going to follow them, I want stats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stats<\/strong>: I love stats. Everybody loves stats. I want to know more about Twitterers, without having to leave Splitweet. For instance, I like the &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/mrtweet.net\/ozh?gr\">twitteristics<\/a>&quot; that MrTweet provides (tweet frequency, reply ratio&#8230;) Something like this within Splitweet would rock.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I&#39;d like to do everything from within Splitweet without having to leave the site and go on Twitter: see friends and followers, search Twitter, etc&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>What I&#39;d love: a real split logic<\/h2>\n<p>As it is currently, you pick one or several accounts to monitor tweets from people these accounts follow (left hand of the dashboard) and replies sent to these accounts (right hand of the dashboard).<\/p>\n<p>I would love this logic being separated in two distincts parts, ie:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>select accounts for which I want to follow tweets (left part of the dashboard)<\/li>\n<li>select accounts for which I want to monitor replies and DM (right part)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reasoning behind this feature request is the following: say I&#39;m an individual from a company that uses Twitter. I would run my personal account &quot;Ozh&quot;, and my corporate account &quot;CoolCorp&quot;. My personal account would follow a hand picked set of people (people I really have interest in) while my corporate account would follow gazillions of twitter users (basically anyone who added me, in a reciprocity spirit).<\/p>\n<p>With Splitweet as it is designed now, I have to make an impossible choice between:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>either show both personal and corporate accounts, but then people who I personally follow (ie via account &quot;Ozh&quot;) will be totally diluted in the flow of people followed by my corporate account,<\/li>\n<li>or show only my personal account, so I can really follow people I want to read from, but then I would miss all the replies sent to my corporate account which will be bad for my brand reputation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In short: you should be able to follow tweets for one or several accounts, and follow replies &#038; DM for other accounts.<\/p>\n<h2>What I&#39;d love, really: a 3 column layout<\/h2>\n<p>There&#39;s one more thing I&#39;d love to have, but it&#39;s more of a redesign than a feature: a 3 column layout.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one for following<\/li>\n<li>one for &quot;brands&quot;<\/li>\n<li>one for replies+DM.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These 3 features are really what makes Splitweet such an excellent tool, and this would make the Dashboard page show more of these 3 types, with everything above the fold.<\/p>\n<p>As it is now, having to scroll down to see just a few replies is cumbersome. Twitter is really about conversation, but the actual layout does not give justice to @replies.<\/p>\n<h2>All in all<\/h2>\n<p>All in all, <a href=\"http:\/\/splitweet.com\/\">Splitweet<\/a> is really cool already, I really love it. Light years from the plain Twitter interface. Now I&#39;m ready for a paid membership plan with more features ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I&#39;ve been using Twitter more and more. I recently launched a tiny web service and decided to use Twitter as a &quot;marketing&quot; platform (maybe I&#39;ll blog about this later) so I really needed a way to switch easily between multiple Twitter accounts and identity. 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