… and that is centralized data and settings
Example: I spent a bunch of time creating a group in TweetDeck and accidentally closed it and it was lost.
Example 2: I tried to resurrect that group and recreated it in Seesmic Desktop on my Mac… But when I went to my PC to work I didn’t have any of the settings.
Here’s the idea for you 3rd party client developers… Store application settings like groups, searches, etc on the web and call the web service when the app starts to load the settings. That way when I switch to a different machine or get a new box my settings will be there. This wouldn’t be a problem if getting everything set up didn’t take a lot of time. When you have sunk a bunch of time creating specific groups out of your thousands of followers and then lose that organization it sucks.
It seems the problem can be solved rather easily… What do you think?
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I absolutely agree. I’m always frustrated that when I go from using Tweetie on my computer to using Tweetie on my iPhone I have to find my place in the update stream again. Let alone groups, searches etc.
Yea I have that problem too!
Great idea, but it’ll probably never happen. We can’t expect Twitter app developers to also house gigs and gigs of information on their own server for us when most of them aren’t charging for their app to begin with.
This feature needs to be built-in to the Twitter API. That being said, it would be nice if they could at least provide some sort of “export” function for groups so we can back-up the groups and move them to a second computer, etc.
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It would be a hefty amount – but I don’t think it would cost much if it was simply an XML config file living on Amazon S3…
Yes – it absolutely needs built into the Twitter API…
Mixero stepped up and did just what you ask. It allows you to sync unread marks and groups across clients. It runs on Air and we have enjoyed watching it through the betas. We have no association to them, just listed them in our catalog. We have another bath of invites going out on June 5 209 at
http://EverythingTwitter.com
@Chris thanks for the heads up on Mixero.. but it just seemed too complicated for me.. Maybe they’ll refresh the UI soon..
There is already an app out there that does this. Called Peoplebrowsr. Works excellently. Like tweetdeck on steroids
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TweetDeck has added this feature! See more -> http://getanewbrowser.com/2009/06/switching-back-to-tweetdeck/