Comments on: Twalala: Twitter with a Mute Button

By: What The Hell

What The Hell — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:39:58 +0000

I do NOT see the favorite button to star a tweet! Where is it?????

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:02:13 +0000

Awesome, Josh. I’ve emailed the team. Those Geeks meetings rock! Hope to run into you at one!

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:52:24 +0000

@Adam: We should definitely make it a point to rectify that. Jack (Templin) has been on me to show up at one of the Providence Geeks dinners, but I keep wussing out.

By the way, think you could shoot me an email connecting me to some of the Twalala team members? I’m planning a general blog post about the Rumble for SitePoint.com (my day job) and I’d love to get some quotes one what makes people think giving up a weekend to code non-stop for 48 hours is a good idea. ( josh [at] railsforum [dot] com or josh.catone@sitepoint.com )

By: Matt Gillooly

Matt Gillooly — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:48:24 +0000

Josh, that sounds good. Fuel efficiency- one more reason for people to vote for twalala! =)

BTW, the first meeting of the new RI Ruby Users Group is next Monday (details @ http://rirug.wordpress.com/). Maybe we’ll see you there?

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:26:22 +0000

Hi Josh! Oh, we know you’re in Providence. Just haven’t happened to meet you yet.

I like to think of myself as a pre-alpha tester for the team, so the first comment kind of holds up.

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:23:28 +0000

(Edit: I suppose I should have said “if the Twalala guys win” …)

By: Josh Catone

Josh Catone — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:22:49 +0000

If you guys won, I could hand deliver the Rails Forum-sponsored part of the grand prize (I’m in Providence).

Cool app. I’m having a lot of fun digging through all the stuff people made this year. Good luck — the competition is stiff!

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:18:37 +0000

Thanks, Matt! It’s been my Twitter client pretty much all weekend and all day. Loving it!

By: Matt Gillooly

Matt Gillooly — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:15:09 +0000

Thanks a ton for the writeup, Adam! Although the site is temporarily frozen for Rails Rumble judging, we’ve all agreed that we want to continue pushing this project forward. So rest assured that work is continuing… I hear Steve already has a bunch of updates he’s anxious to push, as soon as we set up a non-Rails-Rumble server. We’re planning to reach feature parity with the other Twitter clients out there, and also add some more of the things the other guys are all missing. I know I’m looking forward to it!

By: Emlyn

Emlyn — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:08:43 +0000

Definitely a cool concept.

I wish there was something like this for Facebook (no Aunt Minnie, I don’t want you to be my friend OR follow your doggie’s vet experiences!).

My 2 cents: Make the individual mute filters shareable–as searchable add-ons (by keyword) for users who want to mute the same kinds of things as you do (except maybe Aunt Minnie).

By: Sara Streeter

Sara Streeter — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:36:33 +0000

I checked out Twalala because of your blog post and the energetic tweeting over the weekend from the Providence folks – very intuitive user interface and useful concept-turned-app. Thanks Adam for the write-up and thanks to the developers!