UrlTweets - Summarizes your past days URL containing tweets




Twitter username:
Twitter password:
Hours past (1-24):

*FAQ*


  • What is UrlTweets?
    UrlTweets is a web utility that will display only tweets that contained URLs i.e. links to content that appeared in your Twitter friends timeline.

  • What problem does UrlTweets solve?
    The utility allows you to summarize URLs also known as hyperlinks that were tweeted by your friends. This is a good way to catchup or review linked content when you have been away from twitter via mobile or sleeping.
  • Who's behind UrlTweets
    @vkoser who was looking for a better way to keep up with information overload
  • Do you store my password?
    Absolutely not, it's used in ram only to call twitter for your friends timeline which requires authentication. Your user information is stored encrypted in a cookie on your local machine only. Hopefully twitter will get their OAuth implemented soon so we can use a different method than a password for auth.
  • Does this hit against my API rate limit?
    Yes, for each 200 tweets checked for URLs it uses 1 api call up to a maximum of 10 calls. After 10 calls I stop the pagination to save API hits so you can check backward up to 2000 tweets in the last 24 hours.
  • I picked 24 hours and it only got 6 hours what gives?
    Twitter will only allow paging back through the API until the cache runs out. Sometimes the cache is very small like 800 tweets or so. UrlTweets keeps getting data until twitter stops returning it or we meet your entered hours back value which ever comes first.
  • Why did you do this?
    I find it handy to catch up quickly on links posted mostly overnight from people I follow.
  • Do you have plans to extend this?
    Yes I want to eventually offer RSS and possibly digested email nicely formatted and more right column previews like the current TwitPic previews
  • Can you implement feature X?
    Maybe, Feel free to send me requests @vkoser on twitter or vkoser at the gmail