TwittY!, The Twitter Widget For Yahoo! Widgets

Posted on January 25th, 2009 in Dev

TwittY!Sorry for the title, too many twitts and too many ‘gets. Finally, I’ve completed the release version of my Twitter widget for Yahoo! Widgets or also known as Konfabulator before it was bought by Yahoo!. For sometime now I’ve been wanting to create a widget again for Yahoo! Widgets because the last widget I published was a few years back and it was something basic. The Twitter widget idea started just last Monday and I began coding right away. I actually wanted to call it a “sick” widget because it was worked and finished on the days I had a flu ;)

So I submitted my widget today for approval and I hope to hear back from Y! folks hopefully this week. So TwittY! is yet to be seen in their gallery until they say so. Nevertheless, you’ll get the taste of it now because you can download the widget from the link below. Of course, the widget alone is useless unless you have the Yahoo! Widgets installed on your machine.

So what is TwittY!? It’s a Twitter widget that allows you to view the tweets from Twitter, whether from the people  you follow or the public timeline. It also allows you to update your status from within the widget itself. The dock on the Yahoo! Widgets (included in the installation) monitors the number of new tweets that you received. I’m still working on adding more features and integrating more functionalities so you might encounter some limitations on this version of this widget. But if you just want to view tweets and send updates, then this little TwittY! will do it for you.

Click this link to download and install TwittY! on your computer. Make sure that you have the Yahoo! widgets installed on your system first. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know.

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11 Responses to “TwittY!, The Twitter Widget For Yahoo! Widgets”

  1. amorpheous Says:
    February 16th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

    Hi,

    I’ve been using this for a couple of days now. It’s pretty complete in terms of features for my uses, but I’d like to know how often it’s polling the Twitter servers and whether you’re using POST requests or not.

    It seems to be refreshing every minute. However, according to Twitter’s API documentation (see: http://apiwiki.twitter.com/REST-API-Documentation#RateLimiting) only 100 requests per hour are allowed. I have this widget installed on both my desktop and laptop and often have them both running from the same IP so you can the dilemma I face. :-)

    Regards,

    Ammaar.

  2. Henry Lubong Says:
    February 16th, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    Hi Amaar, I’m glad to know that you are using the widget. The polling interval is currently set to 3 minutes. In my next update, I will include the option for the users to change the polling interval.

    Again, thanks for using the widget and please do let me know if you encounter any bugs or if there is something that you want me to add on the widget.

  3. Jim Says:
    February 28th, 2009 at 9:24 pm

    Is there anyway to post the Twitty app. to my myspace page. It is by far the most stylish and applicable one. Thanks

  4. Henry Lubong Says:
    March 5th, 2009 at 10:10 am

    Sorry Jim, TwittY is a dekstop widget and it requires the Yahoo Widgets engine.

  5. Kristy Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 7:51 am

    Is there any way to @ reply to someone directly from the home window in TwittY? I’m having to type in @username each time in the update status window. Maybe I’m missing something somewhere…

    Thanks!

  6. Henry Lubong Says:
    April 14th, 2009 at 8:32 am

    hi Kristy, the next updated version will allow you to do that. it is still in the works.

  7. Jennifer Says:
    May 18th, 2009 at 4:29 am

    Mr. Lubong,

    I downloaded your Twitty! widget and I am having problems with it logging in to our twitter account. It won’t log in, any ideas?

    Thanks!

    Jennifer M.

  8. Amir Says:
    August 2nd, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    Hi Henry,

    This is a great widget: looks good, works like a charm.
    I have only 2 requests:
    1) use secure connection to sign in, and
    2) Allow i18n support. In particular, Arabic/Hebrew/Asian fonts.

    Regards,
    Amir

  9. Oerb Says:
    October 19th, 2009 at 8:29 am

    Hi,

    I like this widget, but I’m twittering in German and it seem’s there’s a problem with character encoding:

    TwittY shows “Glücklichen”, but should show “Glücklichen”. It seems, TwittY shows tweets in UTF-8 in Windows-1252. Do you think, that there’s a workaround?

    Regards,
    Oerb

  10. Pastnieks Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 11:19 am

    Widget is cool, but it’s not supports UTF8 encoding.

  11. Nois3 Says:
    February 10th, 2010 at 4:45 am

    Dont show russian. I think that U use specific font, only english, in widget. If U can fix that – will be glad

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