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Posts tagged twitter
Error while retrieving tweets (Twitter down?)
Aug 24th
You might have noticed that since the last 6 (or 8?) hours “Tweet Activity” have been giving that error. I got some time on my hands to waste and i googled for it, came up that its a pretty common error observed by a lot of users yet there were no official statements regarding what could it be. To verify that i can still resolve twitter from our server and that i haven’t gone over ther API Hits limit i created a check-twitter.php with the following code:
<?php echo gethostbyname('twitter.com'); ?>
Accessed it via Chrome and came out just fine. More >
Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Dec 24th
In the vast world of communication, instant messaging is a long-standing medium. Facebook has entered the scene relatively recently, as has Twitter. If you use these newer mediums of communication and you’re a Pidgin user then you may want to look at the Pidgin plugins for accessing them.
Facebook Lite?
Sep 18th
I dont like social networking or such sites, no offense, but i believe that updating your status 3 times a day on twitter is not being social. Being social is meeting a friend daily on the way back home from office, sitting together with him, having a cup of tea and enjoying life. There are a lot of positive things that such sites do and there are also a lot of negative things. I dont remember but i saw an episode of “The IT Crowd” where they pinpoint some most irritating stuff such sites could do to you. I was More >
