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About

What is this?

Basically, this application can tell you how long you have been talking to your friends. You actually do not need to check here, you can subscribe via email.

Updating

How soon will Last Tweets update an account?

Last Tweets doesn't automatically update an account. Unless someone checks an account 24 Hours later after last updated, or an account is subscribed.

What does "Pinging system is temporarily offine" mean?

Because of Google App Engine's limitation and the time of data retrieving, Last Tweets has to process a request of checking by small piece at a time. Therefore, once a while a Pinging System will ping Last Tweets, let it know it's time to process. However, currently, I don't have a computer can stay online 24 hours a day, which means you have to wait me waking up and turning on my computer. If you have a computer can stay online 24/7 and you are willing share small resource from that computer, please give me a message @livibetter (Windows, Mac, or Linux all are ok).

Subscription

When will Last Tweets send mail?

If there are a) a friend you never sent a message or b) a friend you have not sent in last 14 days; and at least 14 days after last time sent.

Magpie Detection

How accurate is the detection

Maybe not high enough. Those Magpie ads doesn't have client source, e.g. Twhirl, Twitterfox, etc. Therefore I can only see if the first word of tweet is #magpie and if there is http://. Please must read the suspicious tweets before you take more further actions.

Why add this?

I don't like it. However, I haven't seen any Magpie ads in my stream (I don't follow many people). In my opinion, it would not be a totally bad thing IF the followers of that account can have choices besides UNFOLLOWING in order to get rid of those ads. So far, it's bad.

Limitations

  • Twitter account must not be protected, but not limit to friends. If you twitter account is protected, Last Tweets can't retrieve updates.
  • Only first 100 friends will be checked.

Server things

  • Once Last Tweets finishes updating for an account, it tries to mail if that account is subscribed and have not mailed in last 14 days.
  • Up to one searching request to Twitter a second, means 100 friends need 100 seconds to check them all, and that is the ideal case.
  • Every 10 minutes, Last Tweets tries to mail for those failed to mail last time.
  • Every an hour, Last Tweets automatically queues those accounts have been subscribed and last mailed more than 14 days.

The Code

The source code is licensed under the GPLv3. You can check out the project page on Google Code.

Sucks!

Yea... I know.

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