Here’s the hiccup with Twitter:Â You can only be logged into one account at one time.
But what if you have an account…
- for your professional life
- your personal life
- your alter ego
- to tell jokes
- that claims you’re Dwight Schrute
The answer is that you can’t! Gasp! Twitter isn’t set up so you can be logged into multiple accounts and post from said accounts, or, and here comes the interesting part, post to multiple accounts at the same time. But, we don’t hold this against Twitter. They’ve got enough on their plates trying to keep the fail whale from flying in from time-to-time.
So cue a couple other major players, specifically Carsonified. Who is Carsonified? A group web design geniuses, that’s who. They put on major conference like FOWA, FOWD, and FOM. Odd acronyms, but visit the sites – you might add them to the list of go-to conferences next to that ubiquitous Information Today gig. These guys took the Twitter API and mixed it up with my favorite flavor of Javascript, jQuery, and some other fancy pants programming to create the killer Twitter app.
Oh, did I mention they did it in a week? Yea. Rockin’.
It’s called Matt (short for multi-account twitter tweeting) and it allows you to do those things Twitter doesn’t:
- Be logged into multiple accounts at once (several, like probably more than 20 if you really wanted)
- Tweet from one account or cross tweet from multiple accounts
- Only log in with one account – not all 20 plus – but still have the ability to post to any account you want
The downside: It doesn’t give you a stream of Tweets from your followers and those you follow. But hey, if they did that they’d be replacing Twitter!
Go. Enjoy. Tweet peacefully.
A Rocketboom worked on some coding that would allow Twitter users to update the latest information on their polling place (wait times…ugh.)Â They’ve also set it up so you can report via phone, sms, iPhone, or directly from Twitter.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGStmHaf2bM
Check it out: Twitter Vote Report
A few weeks ago I noticed a Twitter name for the IDEA2008 Conference held at Chicago’s own Harold Washington Library. Having an interest in the conference I began following “idea2008″ on my feed. As the conference approached I began seeing updates on hotel information, networking, and pre-conference ideas. During the conference it became a quick way to disseminate information, especially to cellphone Followers, and keep updated on the progression of each day. Via the feed speakers were announced and thanked, after-hours networking events were posted, and transportation information was available.
I was also following attendee mstephens7 who was taking notes and jotting ideas via the feed. He switched between making announcements to followers of keyword #IDEA2008 (by inserting this into a post, followers can search by keyword and view all posts that include #IDEA2008) and his own “personal” notes that are public to all followers.
I wasn’t present at the conference, but it was an interesting way to stay up-to-date on its proceedings. Note-taking via Twitter is an interesting concept that should incited future discussion.
