Technical Tidbits™

If you are a heavy user of Twitter, you may have found out about Adobe’s free software called TweetDeck.

And if you use it with as much regularity as I do, you may have become annoyed with the limits of the tweets. If you receive 100 tweets in one hour on the TweetDeck, you will get a “rate limit exceeded” message in the status bar of TweetDeck and it will refuse to update.

What’s annoying about this limit is the fact that if you are following a lot of people – like many people are – this could be a HUGE problem!

Since the interface counts a tweet as a tweet, you are not in control of the 100 tweets per hour. So if you have over a thousand followers (I’m not there yet!), and they are all twittering like mad, you will exceed your limit whether you tweet or not.

And you have to be really careful about how many hours you save the tweet information.  If you have it set for a 24-hour period, you may hit the 100 tweet limit upon opening the deckfirst thing in the morning.

But, if you can excuse this fundamental flaw and use it anyway because of its ability to update regularly – as opposed to you having to manually update the twitter page – there are a few other issues I’ve encountered with great annoyance.

TweetDeck locks up my WS_FTP application every time they are both running at the same time. Don’t know why, and don’t care. It just does. Usually I keep the TweetDeck minimized in the system tray (near the clock) but something about the two programs do not like each other. And I’m on a dual core processor with 2 GIG of memory. It’s not like I have a slow machine nor am I incapable of multi-threading.

The next issue I have with it is that it crashes when I’m using my ShortKeys software. For those not familiar with the shortkeys application, it enables you to save text that you use repeatedly. It’s great for programming and for teaching online.

Again, I usually have the TweetDeck minimized to the system tray but every time I open my shortkeys, TweetDeck crashes and I get the infamous Windows application crash notice.

Overall, TweetDeck is an awesome application but the little quirks are getting annoying.

Maybe sometime soon they will fix these issues? We can hope.

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