TwerpScan Blog

Just a quick post to let you know that I’m aware that TwerpScan is a bit broken for people with more than 100 contacts in a list at the moment. For them, some contacts will likely show up more than once in the list, and on top of that, the list won’t show all their contacts.

Last night Twitter deprecated an API feature my app is using. Now, to be fair, two months ago they’ve said they might do that at some point. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the time to rewrite the part of TwerpScan which is using this API endpoint, so that means that app is effectively broken at the moment.

I’ll need to find time to implement a fix for this issue. The bad news is that I don’t know how quickly I’ll be able to do it, as I’m currently up to my eyeballs in a client project.

So, please bear with me. I know the situation is less than optimal, but I’m only human.

Thanks,
@Carlo

Oh, this is embarassing. During the last update I’ve managed to introduce a little Javascript error which caused the German-language Followers and Following pages to be stuck, to not show anything.

Somehow I didn’t notice, and the issue went unnoticed (by me) for a few days. I’d like to apologize for this lapse. I’ll try to make sure it won’t happen again.

And by now, it’s working again.

For the last few hours the background worker was stuck, and the requested data was never fetched from Twitter.com. I’ve just restarted the worker, all is back to normal now.

Sorry for the inconvenience, folks. I’m currently working on site for a client, and don’t have that much time for TwerpScan at the moment. If you have problems or found a bug, please shoot me a quick bug report using the feedback tab!

Thanks, @Carlo

Some of you might now that I’m a freelance developer. Working on projects for my clients funds my own projects, TwerpScan being the major one. I don’t get any kind of funding for it, and pay for it myself. In my book, it’s the way it’s to be done. I don’t like the idea of VC money or credits. :) It’s cool, and kind of works for me, but to be honest, I wouldn’t complain if TwerpScan would be able to at least pay for its own server.

In the past, a few people have asked me if I accept donations. I don’t. I ponder adding seriously souped up, yet affordable premium accounts in the future — but no worries, TwerpScan will always remain a free service! It’s a possible long-term goal anyways.

In the short run, tho, there is a way to help your favourite Twitter tinkerers. By using FeaturedUsers you’d simultaneously sponsor Twitter app developers like myself and promoting yourself across a range of high quality Twitter-related sites. You buy ads at FeaturedUsers.com — ads which show your Twitter profile. These are shown to your target demographic: other Twitter users. You get new followers, and the sites get money from displaying your ads. Win-win.

The ads currently shown on TwerpScan are served by FeaturedUsers.com. I’ve used them both as an ad provider and a way to spread the TwerpScan name a bit. Setup’s really, really simple. And I like both the concept and the site itself. It’s a good business.

Recap: no donations for TwerpScan, sorry. :) But FeaturedUsers.com is mighty nice. And if you actually use my link to go there and actually decide to give them a go, I’m getting a referral bonus.

Because I’m not dead. And neither is TwerpScan! I’m just busy after getting a big new client with a big project, is all. Somehow all my own projects need to be financed… you understand.

So, you know. All is well. TwerpScan is working, actually working still fine the last time I’ve checked, and I haven’t abandoned it — I’m just spending most of my waking hours on site with my client, which is a good thing. It’s probably staying that way for the next three or four weeks.

Ah, crazy freelancing business. It’s good to have clients. :)

Letzte Woche war ich auf meinem ersten Twittwoch, logischerweise auf dem in München. Da Thomas Pfeiffer, der Organisator, nach Leuten gesucht hatte, die Vorträge halten wollen, hab ich natürlich gleich die Chance ergriffen, etwas über TwerpScan zu erzählen.

Der Vortrag lief gut, auch wenn ich mich am Anfang etwas mit der Technik gestritten habe, aber es gab Fragen, Reaktionen und auch Lob von einigen Usern, die meine kleine Site schon kannten. Sowas freut mich natürlich immer. Manchen schienen etwas überrascht, dass TwerpScan aus München kommt, und nicht in fremden Landen gebaut wurde.

Die anderen Vorträge kamen vom Schauspieler Michael Jäger, der mit einer Social-Media-Kampagne seinen Traum von der Rolle des Tatort-Kommissar vorantreibt. Florian Bergmann stellte das Konzept der Barcamps vor. Valentin Pletzer von Chip zeigte uns moviecritter, eine Twitter-basierte Movie-Reviews-Site. Und Markus Gladbach von der Messe München stellte die discuss and discover vor.

Alles in allem wars ein runder Abend mit einem interessierten Publikum, interessanten Talks (und damit meine ich nicht den meinen!) und guten Gesprächen. Ich hab nette Leute kennengelernt, einige Bekanntschaften etwas vertieft, und es gab Bier. Was will man mehr. :)

Der Vollständigkeit halber sind hier meine Slides vom Vortrag, und weiter unten der Videomitschnitt. Großer Dank an Jens von Clipflakes fürs Aufzeichnen und Zur-Verfügung-Stellen. Die restlichen Videos des Abends gibts auf Clipflakes.tv.

Na klar! :) Seit heute kann man TwerpScan auch auf Deutsch nutzen. Das sieht dann ungefähr so aus:

Rechts unten auf jeder Seite kann die Sprache umgeschaltet werden.

Viel mehr gibts eigentlich nicht zu sagen… Oder doch, halt! Ich habe auch ein deutschsprachiges Feedback-Forum eingerichtet, und freue mich auf alle Eure Vorschläge und Fehlermeldungen. :)

Gruß,
@Carlo / @TwerpScan

Quick note for those of you who don’t speak German: I’ve added multi-language support to TwerpScan, so now there’s a German version, too! More languages might be added at a later point. :)

Cheers,
@Carlo / @TwerpScan