{"id":1976,"date":"2009-02-17T20:30:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/17\/why-i-love-twe2-and-why-im-avoiding-it\/"},"modified":"2009-02-17T20:30:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T20:30:40","slug":"why-i-love-twe2-and-why-im-avoiding-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/02\/why-i-love-twe2-and-why-im-avoiding-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love Twe2, and Why I&rsquo;m Avoiding It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really want <a href=\"http:\/\/twe2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twe2<\/a> to work. Ever since Twitter turned off SMS delivery for UK users of the microblogging service, the value of Twitter while out and about, especially while at a conference, has been lessened. Sure there have bee improvements in other areas, but a push service for DM\u2019s or @replies is still sorely needed.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of the features that made Twitter the breakout success at SXSW 2007 in my opinion, and the loss of it last year did impact on my plans. Would I pay Twitter to get back DM and @ replies? Yes. But they won\u2019t take the money.<\/p>\n<p>Neither will <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.twe2.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twe2<\/a>, but they will inject advertising into the SMS messages which will carry my forwarded messages. I\u2019m cool with that (you hear me Twitter? <em>I\u2019m cool with that<\/em>). What I\u2019m not happy about is handing Twe2 my password to the account.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve said they\u2019ll be allowed to test the upcoming OAuth service \u2013 and when that happens, I\u2019ll be there. Till then, I\u2019ll remain data safe and information poor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really want Twe2 to work. Ever since Twitter turned off SMS delivery for UK users of the microblogging service, the value of Twitter while out and about, especially while at a conference, has been lessened. Sure there have bee improvements in other areas, but a push service for DM\u2019s or @replies is still sorely needed. It was one of the features that made Twitter the breakout success at SXSW 2007 in my opinion, and the loss of it last year did impact on my plans. Would I pay Twitter to get back DM and @ replies? Yes. But they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[685,52],"tags":[903,902,900,265,901,87],"class_list":["post-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitter-web-20","category-web-2point0","tag-replies","tag-dm","tag-oath","tag-sms","tag-twe2","tag-twitter","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-vS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}