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Twitter Hook is a small PHP app uses Twitters search API to pull the most recent tweets containing a specified keyword. This is just an early version. I plan on converting it to a wordpress plugin along with adding a few features it in the near future. Download link and demo of it searching for the keyword ‘twitter’ after the break. Please leave any comments, criticism, or questions in the comments.
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Facebook seems to have gotten the idea that Twitter is its main competition. As of the most recent homepage redesign Facebook essentially functions as a Twitter clone with a beefed up profile page. The concepts of a status update and a wall post have merged together to approximate Twitter’s tweet and has pushed everything else to a small bar on the side. Which honestly is not terrible a design, except for the fact that Facebook is not the same kind of thing as Twitter. And it probably never will be. They aren’t even competing. I use both quite frequently, but for completely different purposes. To the best of my knowledge that’s pretty common among users of both. Even as similar as a tweet is to the new version of a status update, I rarely if ever have the same content for both. So even if Facebook perfectly clones every feature of Twitter, people won’t use it as the same way use Twitter, simply because that’s not what Facebook is to them. Sadly Facebook is breaking itself to give its users what it thinks they want. Here’s a heads up Facebook: Sure we want all that stuff, but not from you, and certainly not at the cost of the features we knew, liked, and actually wanted.