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TodaysMeet meets Twitter
Three changes went live tonight.
TodaysMeet finally met Twitter
There’s a new option when you create a room. You can optionally add a hash tag, and TodaysMeet will go search Twitter and pull in tweets tagged with it. This happens in very-near realtime, so it should feel pretty seamless.
I’m very interested to hear your feedback on this feature. Love it? Hate it? Confusing? Broken? Leave a comment!
Today’s Meet => TodaysMeet
I dropped the apostrophe. It looked weird. I’ll be trying to make sure that I’m consistent everywhere. If you’re going to write about TodaysMeet, I’d appreciate it if you could use this new spelling.
New Server
This server has been ready for a couple of months, but I got lazybusy.Yeah, busy. TodaysMeet had always been hosted on a server I typically use for experiments and new sites. Now it’s on its own. This should really improve uptime.
Again, if you notice any issues, please let me know.
I hope you enjoy the Twitter integration. I’ll continue to tinker with the site over the weekend. You can always check status.todaysmeet.com for faster updates.
November 13th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I was unable to get the twitter addition to function. I entered several new tweets that included the hashed keyword I had selected. No content was added to the backchannel.
Otherwise, everything worked well. Giving folks a way to text-in a comment would be a nice addition. I’ve done this with polleverywhere.com
November 18th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
I tried out Today’s Meet at a conference this week, http://todaysmeet.com/cetpa09 and the Twitter hashtag worked too well. Several of the tweets with hashtags appeared repeatedly in the Today’s Meet room.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Thanks for the feedback Jason and Burt. I’ll look into those issues as soon as I can.
November 24th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
James…you rock. Thanks.
December 15th, 2009 at 10:40 am
I couldn’t get the hashtag thing to work either. I refreshed and it never went through. I tried to send from my cell and laptop. Nada.
December 29th, 2009 at 2:57 am
A big problem is that todaysmeet doesn’t handle the Swedish letters åÅ-äÄ-öÖ anymore! It was no problem before, but now we can’t use todaysmeet anymore in the Scandinavian countries.
It is a pity…
January 6th, 2010 at 8:02 am
I tried the hashtag from TweetDeck and nothing. I do something wrong or is there a problem?
January 14th, 2010 at 11:38 am
I can’t get the Twitter updates to work, either, and I tried right in Twitter and not in anything like TweetDeck, too.
January 25th, 2010 at 9:46 am
I’m trying the hashtag #artbooks but TodaysMeet isn’t picking it up; is there a way to prompt TM to scan twitter for the tag?
March 11th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I am trying the hashtags too- one feature that really excited me about this- and one tweet came through several hours late and the rest haven’t.
March 24th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
I tried the twitter hashtag function in a Todaysmeet.com chat room and it didn’t pull any in. I used one of the trending ones #nowplaying just to make sure it’d get some action. Nada.
May 12th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Am getting the tweets to work some time but with some delay
June 13th, 2010 at 1:34 am
Tweets are taking too long for this feature to be useful. You want to encourage conversation and it does not work when tweets take 30 minutes to show up. Otherwise, love the simplicity of your service!