Comments on: Twitterrifically Frustrated

By: Sarah Dopp

Sarah Dopp — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:50:35 +0000

Thank you for this post! I googled “twitterrific change login” and this quickly solved my problem! You’ve done well in adding to our collective webbernet knowledgebase.

By: Alexander Graf

Alexander Graf — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:59:02 +0000

Personally I don’t like Twitteriffic. Oh, I love the looks but the type of winow Twitteriffic uses just doesn’t cut it for me. It should either be a “normal” modal window and show up in Apple+Tab or it should be glued to the Desktop like Samurize for Windows does.

And about the e-mail login thingy… You can login to twitter on the website with just your e-mail address too. I think it’s either not possible to sign up for 2 accounts with the same e-mail or they have a serious problem with their database concept…

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:10:37 +0000

I've just tried signing up using the email address I registered my existing twitter user with, and it told me the email address is already in use. I'm not too surprised by this; a lot of places use email as a unique identifier; on twitter both username and email must be unique, not just the combination of the two. As far as how Twitterific's UI works, I think it would be far better implemented as a modal window and used something like Growl for tweet alerts (which had me thinking; why hasn't Apple just integrated Growl directly into OS X yet? I use it for so many things...) Final comment; Eric, I have just two days ago had a sight test and am wearing my new prescription contact lenses, yet I can barely read the text I'm typing into this textarea. Could the text not be a little bit bigger?

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:10:28 +0000

Nope, Colin. I've come to the same conclusion. It definitely needs to become modal, especially since it sometimes drops into Spinning Beachball of Death mode and so covers up other applications I want to use until the beachball goes away and I can close it. TwitterPost makes a good alternative on that score, since it's an application instead of a service or whatever nature of beastie Twitterrific actually is, although one must admit that TwitterPost isn't nearly as purty.

By: Colin D. Devroe

Colin D. Devroe — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:41:48 +0000

The part that frustrates me more, about Twitterrific, is that it is not a “normal” window. It doesn’t show up in CMD+TAB, on the dock, or in Exposé. Am I the only one that feels this is bad form?

By: John Evans

John Evans — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:31:41 +0000

The API uses the email and not a user name.

All of the methods (except for the public timeline) require user authentication via Basic Auth. The username is the email address you have stored on Twitter, the password, your password.

Taken from here

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:55:57 +0000

Well, crap. How long have I been misspelling “terrific”?

Talk about frustrating!

By: David Chartier

David Chartier — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:41:15 +0000

I haven’t tried it, but I’m *pretty* sure you can’t sign up for two accounts with the same email address anyway. I’ve been caught at other sites in the past trying to do this – once or twice I hvaen’t been able to remember an old login, and I simply try signing up with a new account only to be denied because the email I’m using is already on record.

By: Chris Hunt

Chris Hunt — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:44:56 +0000

Second F in the application’s name? There’s only one F in terrific.

By: Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:00:58 +0000

Dan's the winner: the information is located in the Keychain. Going in and changing the e-mail address fixed the problem. Which leads me to wonder: what if you have two Twitter accounts that use the same e-mail and password? (Or is that even possible?) How would Twitterrific distinguish between them without the username, which the Keychain doesn't seem to store? Ah, so many questions for so little content... Tanja, I'd already tried that, but it hadn't worked. Besides, Twitterrific can access Twitter even when I'm completely logged out via the web, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't rely on the cookie. I could certainly be wrong, though!

By: tanja

tanja — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:16:41 +0000

Visit twitter.com, logout and login with another account, Twitterrific shares the cookie I believe

By: Frank Taillandier

Frank Taillandier — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:26:47 +0000

I had the same frustration. Have you tried other Twitterapps like Twitterpost or even less annoying and more practical dashboard widget TwitterLex ?

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 19:26:49 +0000

I’m not entirely sure but I think the user name and password combination is stored in your keychain.