No longer relying on screen name

Previously Twitizer used the Twitter Username (or screen name) as identifier of the user and its content, but as Username can be changed it’s not a trustworthy identifier, so Twitizer is now using the unique (and hopefully never-changing) Twitter user ID instead.

The biggest practical difference is that if you change Username on Twitter now, you will still be able to access content you’ve created under your old Username.

Other than that everything should work as before.

Also, note that each time you Login, Twitizer will update your profile information, including Username, Name, Picture, Bio, Location and Web.

User profile info

So far Location, Bio and Web info are shown (in other words what’s on your Settings / Profile page at Twitter) on the Timeline and Users pages, provided you’ve entered anything at Twitter.

Please note that you need to log in to Twitizer again, to update this information.

Twitizer, now with more Twitter

In an effort to make better use of the combined features of Twitizer and Twitter, and more or less seamlessly complement Twitter with features it lacks, the following interconnections now exist:

• Whenever a message is sent to Twitizer, a tweet with part of the text message and a link back to the related Twitizer landing page is submitted. This is independent of how the message was sent/uploaded to Twitizer (via Uploader, e-mail, MMS or the tweet row on the site) or whether the message contains pictures, videos, audio, long messages or a combination thereof.
• When someone rates your message a reply tweet is submitted a la “I gave twitizer.com/xxxxx the rating n” (see Rating tweet).
• When someone comments on your message a reply tweet is submitted with the comment text.
• When you log in to Twitizer for the first time a tweet is submitted a la “I’ve started using Twitizer, that makes it easy to share experiences. See twitizer.com for more information.”.
• A similar tweet is submitted to @twitizercom, the same account this blog tweets to.

Landing page: new order

Latest is now placed after Rating and Comments.

We hope you’ll find this more logical and obvious, as rating and comments are related to the displayed message, not the latest messages.

Rating tweet

When someone rates your message you will now get a Twitter reply about that.

Downtime blues

Twitizer is up again after a massive outage caused by intense raining that knocked out the electricity.

We hope for stability from now on and we apologize for the downtime.

Longer video timeout

The video uploading timeout has been extended to 60 seconds, to better handle larger video files.