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when will "tracking" be back?
when will the "track" feature be back?
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Track is disabled due to some issues with its design. I have created a bot that will provide the same functionality.
1. Follow Tweettrak
2. Wait for me to follow you (or for twitter to enable autofollow for me... see http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to... )
3. Send a direct message to tweettrak: 'track @RyanK' (substituting your username, or any other search term)
4. enjoy track functionality!
5. Tweet about it and tell your friends!
Website coming soon which will let you filter out people you already have device notifications on for, among some other features. It should scale really well as long as I don't hit any artifical limits for sending messages... in which case twitter should be able to whitelist it... assuming they aren't as slow as they are to turn on auto-following.
Happy to take feedback and suggestions.. I'm tracking both tweettrak and @RyanK... So, I'll see your tweets
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Inappropriate?I don't know when either - but my comments on track a few days ago in the topic
Tracking isn't working on my iPhone may be of interest whether or not you use an iPhone.
mdy makes a similar point in the topic why isn't my twitter tracking working?.
I've had a quick look through other topics tagged track or tracking, but most seem to date back to the time when track was still available.
I’m waiting to track again, too!
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Inappropriate?Track is disabled due to some issues with its design. I have created a bot that will provide the same functionality.
1. Follow Tweettrak
2. Wait for me to follow you (or for twitter to enable autofollow for me... see http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to... )
3. Send a direct message to tweettrak: 'track @RyanK' (substituting your username, or any other search term)
4. enjoy track functionality!
5. Tweet about it and tell your friends!
Website coming soon which will let you filter out people you already have device notifications on for, among some other features. It should scale really well as long as I don't hit any artifical limits for sending messages... in which case twitter should be able to whitelist it... assuming they aren't as slow as they are to turn on auto-following.
Happy to take feedback and suggestions.. I'm tracking both tweettrak and @RyanK... So, I'll see your tweets
I’m confident
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Inappropriate?very missed the tracking is. uhhh.... i think i was just channeling yoda there. weird.
I’m agro!!!!
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Inappropriate?yes track missing is making me sad, but now I am using tweettrack lets see how it works out!
I’m emo
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Have a little bit of patience with TweetTrak... I've been working with Twitter for about a week to get whitelisted so that all direct messages get sent.
Currently, if it has hit the limit.. it won't be able to contact you. So, it will add or remove things you want to track, but won't be able to give you a confirmation.
There's a couple other annoyances that will be fixed soon.. so please have patience!
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to... is the page with the whitelisting saga. -
Inappropriate?well hell if you can send me some tracking stuff thats great.. since I have been getting none!! Keep up the good work guy!
I’m an asshat
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Inappropriate?Hmm, just wondering if the new search.twitter.com doesn't do the job since you can now subscribe to an RSS feed of each and every search phrase. That will deliver new tweets for your search term to your feed reader at least.
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what's a good application to work with RSS that would let me get e-mailed everytime a certain word pops up? I want to track a certain word for one of my twitter accounts which seems to be popping up a few times a day.
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Hi srizvi1. I've been using Tweettrak and it works quite well. It doesn't even need your Twitter password (which is what I like most about it).
See http://twitter.com/tweettrak.
It sends me a DM every time it sees a Tweet that contains a word I track. Since Twitter emails me whenever I receive a DM, I get the tweet via email within a few minutes. -
thanks mdy. I just started following tweettrack and sent a message to him.. er.. it... to start following the word I want. I'm doing this from not my personal twitter account, but rather the twitter account for my website (I want to hear whenever someone discusses the topic my site's about - maybe reach out to them if there's a window). I have my twitter set up to email me whenever I receive a DM so I'm on the same boat as you.
I won't have the same mobile capabilities that I do with my personal twitter account though. This is because my personal twitter account is already set up with my mobile so I can only be notified via text whenever I get a DM there - not to my site's twitter account. What I maybe could do is set up my email account to auto forward the message to my cell whenever it arrives.
Even then, I unfortunately can't do much for my site's twitter account from my cell since, again, it's already registered for my personal account. I can just make a mental note to do something when I return to my computer. -
Hi srizvi1. If it's important for you to receive site-related track alerts on your cellphone, you still have the option of using TweetTrak on your personal account... but instead of tracking keywords that are important to you personally, you're tracking site-related keywords.
This assumes that you don't mind receiving both personal and site-related DMs on one phone, and that the cost of receiving DMs via sms isn't too prohibitive for you.
Each DM that TweetTrak sends will have "direct from TweetTrak" so you'll know it's a tracked tweet as opposed to a DM from someone you follow. -
Hi srivi1!
It looks like mdy already covered the basics, but I wanted to point out that if your phone has web access, you can use m.twitter.com to send tweets as well.
I have a couple different twitter accounts (@RyanK and @TweetTrak, for example) and @RyanK goes to my phone... I'm tracking @TweetTrak using my own bot so I get messages whenever someone mentions it.
Normally I reply using my own name, but in some cases (like if I don't think that the other person has started tracking their own name) I'll login into @TweetTrak via my phone to post a tweet.
Hope that helps! And also, hope that you continue to enjoy using TweetTrak! -
Inappropriate?so I guess I can use pingie.com to send that rss to my phone. so many ways to do everything... especially when the regular way doesn't work.
I’m feeling like a hot dog
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yes.. you can.. however, most RSS readers only update once an hour.. TweetTrak, being designed for tracking, checks as often as once a minute...
There's of course many ways to use feeds and APIs... the search functionality itself has some shortcomings.. but we live with what we are given.
