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22.06.2018	Twitter muda regras e Favstar é retirado do ar	O Twitter está mudando suas APIs para desenvolvedores e afetando serviços de terceiros. Isso inclui o Favstar.fm, que preferiu encerrar suas atividades em vez de “operar nesse ambiente de incerteza”. O desenvolvedor Tim Haines, responsável ...
14.05.2018	Favstar, the website that ranked good tweets, is shutting down — and it blames Twitter	Favstar, a website that ranked Tweets by favorites and retweets, is shutting down next month. The founder blames recent Twitter changes and says "Favstar can’t continue to operate in this environment of uncertainty." In the early ...
14.05.2018	Favstar says it will shut down June 19 as a result of Twitter’s API changes for data streams	As Twitter develops an ever-closer hold on how it manages services around its real-time news and social networking service, a pioneer in Twitter analytics is calling it quits. Favstar, an early leader in developing a way to track and review...
17.07.2017	Here's Ed Sheeran Taking Up Valuable Breathing Room on 'Game of Thrones'	Last night, Game of Thrones returned for the first part of its final act. Maps were drawn, dining halls were poisoned, dimensional portals were accidentally set up, it was a joyous time for all. Despite all these plot gears turning, the mos...
09.01.2014	Twitter Toys With Ways To Boost Engagement With ‘@AchievementBird’ Experiment	Twitter has begun experimenting with an account, called @AchievementBird, that will direct message you ‘achievements’ that you earn with your tweets. The account is protected but has granted follows in the past few days. Once you’re on the ...
04.02.2013	Investigative Journalist Claims Her Public Tweets Aren't 'Publishable;' Threatens To Sue Blogger Who Does Exactly That	Update: In case this isn’t enough, there’s a follow up to this story, as Teri Buhl is apparently not a fan of our writeup.
24.09.2012	Scabbarhea	No one likes watching sports all the time except people who are past the prime of their lives, work for ESPN, and/or are extremely obese. Anyone else who makes a point of watching athletic competition on appointment is either running toward...
28.03.2012	The IETF is in your Web, fixing your security	The hot topic for this week's Internet Engineering Task Force meetings? Web security. Photograph by Aurich Lawson reader comments 19 with 16 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit The Inter...
10.08.2011	Twitter Comes Alive With Realtime Activity Streams	Since its inception, content on Twitter has largely been displayed in the same basic manner. That is a linear, reverse chronological stream of Tweets. Two new sections being added to the service are about to change that. Specifically, the “...
23.05.2011	Twitter Adds A New Feature, Another Blindside for Third Party Developers?	Twitter has just announced that it will begin sending email notifications to users when they’re retweeted by someone they follow or when someone favorites one of their tweets. Until now Twitter has given users the option to receive email no...
30.03.2011	Founders & CEOs on Jack Dorsey’s Return to Twitter	While Twitter’s “days of imminent technical meltdown” may be in the past, the company has run into a host of other troubles in recent months. As a part of its efforts to monetize and stabilize its once shaky servers, the company has sent si...
22.02.2011	Twitter Puts the Smack Down on Another Popular App: Whither Twitter as a Platform?	This morning TwapperKeeper, the Twitter-based service that allowed users to create and export archives of Tweets around certain words or hashtags, announced that it would be shutting down a number of key features of the service to remain in...
18.10.2010	Favorious tries to organise your Twitter favourites into something more useful	Favorious is an interesting new web app which tries to make more of your twitter favourites than you might previously have thought possible. Twitter itself has famously done little with Favourites so it’s been left to third party developers...
16.12.2009	Create A Custom Notebook, Featuring Your Tweets. Seriously.	Boondoggle, a Belgian interactive agency, has cooked up a deliciously useless product called TweetNotebook that basically lets you create a physical notebook that features a random set of your Twitter messages. No joke. Here’s how it works:...
04.12.2009	Favit delivers hilarious tweets to iPhone	Favstar launches app which presents users with a steady stream of entertaining, oft favorited tweets "Sometimes I eat a lot of cheese, and other times I eat a lot of cheese but don't tell you because it's my secret cheese eating time.&...
04.12.2009	Star That Tweet! Favit Launches in iTunes App Store	There’s a new iPhone application from Favstar.fm which launched late last night in the iTunes App Store. Like the Favstar website, the new Favit app (iTunes link) aggregates the “best” Twitter posts based on the number of stars they receive...
28.09.2009	Preview: Tweetie 2 Takes The Best iPhone Twitter App And Ups The Sex Appeal	There is absolutely no shortage of Twitter apps available for the iPhone. But in my mind (and the minds of many others) one stands above all the rest: Tweetie. And while the app has undergone several small tweaks since it was first released...
08.09.2009	How To: See When Your Tweets Are Favorited, by RSS	Tweets on Twitter, you can favorite them – but do people take the time to? It turns out they do and someone’s probably been favoriting Tweets from you, too. Favstar is a new service that tracks the most favorited tweets tweeted and finds so...
12.07.2009	Favstar.fm Makes The Twitter "Favorite" Less Of An Unwanted Step-Child	The “Favorite” is kind of like the unwanted step child feature of Twitter. Though it has been around since the early days of the service, they have never really done anything to promote its use. One would assume you’re supposed to use it to...

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