Twitter Manager Beta
Posted on Thursday, April 30th, 2009
I use TweetDeck to manage my twitter activities. It is a great application for the organization of tweets into groups based upon user defined criteria. After performing a search on Fort Collins via TweetDeck I discovered how easy, accurate and accessible area events, news, job openings, speed traps and more were to view on a regularly updated basis.
In the case of Fort Collins I discovered several regular tweeters adding events information. It occurred to me that having one twitter page for all the posts could be a useful tool for a wide variety of users for a similarly wide variety of reasons, not the least of which would be a live feed embedded into one website.
Significant problems with multiple users having access to one twitter account became obvious. An unscrupulous user could change the account password, thereby locking everybody else out. What if the password got out, then who knows who might choose to post what?!
I found a solution in TwitterMail. With a twitter mail account users could email their post using a TwitterMail address and VOILA!, the post would appear on the specified twitter page. Pretty neat, but still, if the email address got out problems would be sure to arise.
To keep the TwitterMail email address private and keep the twitter account information private I came up with a web interface where users could be registered to gain access to a posting form.
Once filled out and submitted the information almost instantly appears on the designated twitter page, and onto any other website or blog pages using the information.
