Sometimes I just want the digital world to mimic the analog world. Exactly. It’s rare, but there are times that I don’t want an “vast improvement.” And I don’t want innovation. I just want to continue doing what I’ve always done, without having to change my behavior. I just want to do the same thing, only digitally. And this is the hope I have for the iPad for one specific task – my to do lists.
When we first launched Twext.me, Twitter was in the early stages of their OAUTH launch. There were a few hitches when we made our first attempts to initiate, so we decided to simply require users to input their Twitter username and password. The recent surge in Twitter spam has people feeling sketchy about giving anyone [...]
If you’ve been with Twext.me from the beginning, you know that we’ve been using the various mobile carrier email-to-text options to deliver your Twitter mentions vis SMS. This worked fine, but most of the carriers generated a unique short code for each notification we sent. We found the solution in TextMarks.com.
Ben Martin is the reason we created Twext.me. So, we thought it would be nice to feature the video he created to show people how to use it. Thanks, Ben!
One weekend of live testing was all it took to figure out that some changes needed to be made if “power users” were going to find any benefit to the Twext.me service. Ben Martin and Derek Massey both sent in their requests for updates. And we made the changes.
Zeek Interactive launches a new Twitter service called Twext.me. Twext.me sends your Twitter mentions to you via SMS text message.