September 2009
2 posts
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oneforty is a twitter outfitter, with tons of resources for all things twitter. You may also think of oneforty as a twitter app store. Please support find2follow by rating it.
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“Minimalistic (like Twitter itself) and useful if you’re looking for more twitterers to follow but don’t want to trawl through a volume of tweets to get there.”
August 2009
3 posts
DDoS attack on twitter may affect your find2follow...
Unfortunately, Twitter has been under attack for the last couple of weeks, and it has affected Twitter’s API as well. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users; read more at Wikipedia.
Since find2follow relies on Twitter’s API to find you new friends, we also have been affected. So if you find some people who...
find2follow featured on socialmedian →
find2follow featured on rutwitter →
Great, rutwitter is all about twitter in Russia. Some quick translation: “find2follow is very good, you can quickly find people that will be interesting to communicate”. Thanks :)
July 2009
12 posts
less celebrities, please
It’s become clear that real people wanna find real people. There’s already a lot of buzz around celebrities on Twitter, and it’s not hard to find really famous movie actors & actresses, basketball players, TV showmen, Web stars, singers, and politicians. Not to mention business and bot accounts.
Typically, one would be more interested in finding his or her neighbor,...
“really impressive results”
– Doug Williams (API Engineer at Twitter, Inc.)
Live High, by Jason Mraz
find2follow featured on twitdom →
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find2follow featured on tweerrific →
105 Examples of Clean and Minimal Twitter Apps →
find2follow featured at n.27 — “Twitter is currently the hottest web service, and along with it comes a large flock of what is known as Twitter apps or mashups. It took me a while before I was able to filter out the simplest ones out there, and I’m happy today to share with everyone the 105 Twitter apps I found to have a clean and minimal design that compliments the simplicity of their...
minor improvements on the API
We’ve just released some minor improvements on the API. Firstly, two HTTP status codes have been included: 405 (Method Not Allowed) and 406 (Not Acceptable). The idea is to facilitate debugging, and to provide more detailed output.
Secondly, the API now expects an HTTP header called ‘Accept’, which is used to specify the media-type that is acceptable for the response. The...
hourly limit increased (a lot!)
So find2follow took off, and it’s been crazy. We’ve experienced some side effects from the recent user base growth, which is exactly the sort of headache we were looking for :)
find2follow used to be constrained by Twitter itself, so unfortunately some of you came across the following message: “We’ve reached our hourly limit given by Twitter”.
Therefore, we got in...
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June 2009
4 posts
“Scrum is about making things visible so that you can make common sense decisions”
– Ken Schwaber
Listening to Kings of Leon while coding new...
SWAT / team of pigs
Chicken: Hey, why don't we open a restaurant?
Pig: Good idea. What do you want to call it?
Chicken: Why don't we call it 'Ham and Eggs'?
Pig: I don't think so. I'd be committed, but you'd only be involved.
May 2009
10 posts
“Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Working software over...”
– Manifesto for Agile Software Development
Introducing find2follow (by MIH SWAT)
We’re glad to announce that the very 1st version of find2follow is already available. Why don’t you give it a try and let us know your feelings? It’s free, fun, and safe! No signin, no signup, just one textbox and a button. Interesting twitterers just 1-click away. Enjoy!
find2follow →
A minimalistic approach to finding people you may like to follow on Twitter.
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