Comments on: If a DM falls in a forest . . .

By: Craig Hockenberry

Craig Hockenberry — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:13:27 +0000

I’m the author of Twitterrific, and you’re right the app currently is silent in it’s failure.

I’d like to take a more proactive approach to the problem — not allow you to start a DM to someone who doesn’t follow you. Twhirl’s indication that the message didn’t go through doesn’t prevent you from wasting time composing the message in the first place.

In order to do it right, I need to do user management (keeping a list of who’s following.) That’s planned for the next major release.

-ch

By: John

John — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:48:45 +0000

There is definitely an odd piling on of multiple negatives – if no one is not following you and your client does not tell you, how can you not get confused?

By: Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:05:01 +0000

“d nobody” – is this some modern-day take on The Odyssey? “No Man twittered me!”

By: Insomnic

Insomnic — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:26:00 +0000

Twhirl is my app of choice after trying out all of the ones I can find. Snitter used to be my client of choice – but Twhirl had all the features I want in an uncluttered UI I like (both PC and Mac).
I think Snitter and Spaz may also just toss those DMs to the ether because I never saw an error when DMing “non-follow” people until I tried it with Twhirl.

By: Vishy Venugopalan

Vishy Venugopalan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:09:05 +0000

Hi John,

I observe the same behavior on Twitbin as you do on Twitterific. No signs of it on my timeline and no error message. I’d wager the issue is with how these twitter clients handle API error messages.

Regards,
Vishy.