I know this feature request is gtalk specific, but it would be rather useful.

At the moment I get a gtalk window with a lot of text that is quite hard to scan through especially if I get more than a couple of tweets in one go - as the gtalk clients support *bold* and _italic_ (or rather it interprets them at presentation time) it would be great if there were service specific text formatters so that instead of this ..

Twitter User (twitter1): Some random tweet from a user that I follow.
Twitter User (twitter2): Another random tweet from another random user.

we could have something like this ..

Twitter User (twitter1): Thanks for becoming a follower, feel free to ask questions.
Twitter User (twitter2): Windows has been so slow this week it is making me cry

I’m sure it would make a big difference in readability.

I have small feature request:

When sending a reply to a direct message to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), would it be possible to receive a confirmation message from the main tweet.im contact, something like

[OK message to nick sent]

because now there’s no way to know if the direct message went out or not, apart from going to my Twitter outbox.

twitter does now have a beta period with support for OAuth: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/OAuth-FAQ

This makes it unnecessary to provide tweet.im with the password for twitter. I think that would be a great improvement! Unfortunately the I don’t know when the beta period is over and tweet.im could offer support for OAuth.

Thanks,
Niels

I’d like to second the request for the ability to use @replies.

Currently if I receive a tweet via IM and I want to reply I have to find the tweet on twitter.com and click reply. I’d like to be able to do that through the IM interface.

I’m not sure how it would work best. The simplest way would probably be to check if my message starts with @username, and if it does to set the in_reply_to_status_id field to the id of the last tweet received from @username. That would leave open the possibility of replying to the wrong tweet though.

You could always prefix tweets with their ids, and then require those when writing an @reply to ensure accuracy (if not elegance).

I suggest that in addition to the [OK] response message after sending a tweet, tweet.im would give the URL to that tweet, something like

[OK] tweet: http://twitter.com/f055/status/1277906477

It would be cool if you could configure time between new tweet checks. It is too long for me.

Regarding time between request it is five minutes and it is already very frequent for polling. We do not want to generate a bulk load of request to twitter. With 1000 users online, that already 400 requests per minute (one for messages and one for direct messages).

I would love a little more control over tweet.im for what I receive for via IM. Rather than get a blast of everything would it be possible to filter what I get to messages that are replies to me and direct messages? I really want to use tweet.im as a quick way to post my messages to Twitter and receive @replies and direct messages.  The rest of the time line is not important.

Mickaël Rémond - 22 December 2008 09:32 AM

ageor - 20 December 2008 03:27 PM

Mickaël Rémond - 14 November 2008 12:36 AM

What do you miss badly ?

I would really like an on/off switch. If directs & replies could have their own on/off switch, so much the better.

The original track feature would be also awesome.

Thanks!

We are working on both features :)

Thank you for your feedback !

Just another +1 for this… five months later. Might this really happen some day soon?

Simon Long - 15 February 2009 04:00 PM

I’d like to second the request for the ability to use @replies.

Was the feature implemented? It would be really nice to send proper replies with in_reply_to_status_id via XMPP.

I’m very unhappy with the recent upgrade.

I want to always receive IM’s when people I am following tweet, even if I am away or DND.  This allows those updates to queue in my messenger and be there for me when I return to read them.  I strongly dislike the limit of 20 that it sends when coming back from away, and would rather just get them as they come regardless of my IM status.

I find that, since the “upgrade”, this no longer happens if I am “away”, and it has made the service vastly less useful to me.  IMHO, whether tweet.IM forwards tweets should be explicitly settable, with three options:

* on—original behavior, always forwards tweets whenever you are online
* auto—current behavior, monitors IM status and forwards tweets only when “available”
* off—never forwards tweets

This would accommodate people like me, who always want this feature on, and other posters who have requested a way to turn it off entirely.

-Toranin

toranin - 23 September 2009 02:52 AM

* on—original behavior, always forwards tweets whenever you are online
* auto—current behavior, monitors IM status and forwards tweets only when “available”
* off—never forwards tweets

We will implement this. This is a good idea that will make every one happy.

@toranin:

You will now find the following new commands in Tweet.IM:

Enjoy !

Thanks!  I appreciate your rapid work on this, and hope people will enjoy the having the option.

Somebody else already mentioned it, but replies to messages doesn’t work like it should.

The problem (and possible solution) are also apparent in the tircd script (twitter-2-irc).
http://code.google.com/p/tircd/issues/detail?id=58&q=reply

Now replies are not marked as replies in clients that support it and it confuses my contacts :)