Hash Card? Tweep?
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What is the purpose of "Go to @Tweep" on the app menu?
What is the purpose of #Hash Card on the app menu?
What are the dots at the bottom of the timeline for?
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Support Staff 2 Posted by Moe on 17 Feb, 2011 02:27 AM
Go to @tweep is used when you want to view the profile of a twitter user that you know his/her screen name. Entering a screen name and taping on Go to Tweep will take you to the user's profile where you can view their bio, timelines, and favorites.
Hashcard is a feature that allows you to follow a #hashtag or a search keyword in a separate Card. It's highly useful at times when you're following an event or a big news.
The dots in the bottom of the timeline shows you on which panel you are. If you swipe right or left you can reach to your mentions or direct messages, these dots will indicate which timeline you're on as they're currently only 3 panels on the homescreen.
Hope that helps.
3 Posted by domicius on 17 Feb, 2011 07:22 AM
And to that description of Hashcard you may add that not only hastags or search keywords work but advanced twitter operators like from:username, to:username etc. (see search.twitter.com/advanced for more) work too! :D Amazingly powerful!
BTW, I found a little cosmetic bug: if you use a long enough search term like "from:webosinternals development", it will overflow from the header onto the first tweet... should probably be contained in the header which creates another problem - it won't be completely visible then - any chance to make it editable then? That would then alow us to dinamically change the Hashcard contents. ;)
Support Staff 4 Posted by Moe on 17 Feb, 2011 03:49 PM
@domicius, that' right, that's fixed now, in 1.1.2 you'll find it all in place :) good catch... as for enabling editing the settings of the hashcard, the keywords and the update interval, we'll add them as we have it in our plans, we'll get there :)
5 Posted by domicius on 18 Feb, 2011 02:38 AM
So it's gonna be even more powerful! Amazing! :) Thanks!
BTW, do you have it in your plans to be able to store (to be able to do something like pause updating or close the app altogether) these Hashcards? Because that would be the next logical step as I see it. And when I say that, I completely understand the emphasis on the plans part. :)
Albeit there's twitter search that allows to do that, a) it only allows a silly low, seemingly arbitrary number of saved searches and b) one (as of yet, at least) can't open these searches in a different card, like it's possible with Hashcard. So while there's cure for the latter, Twitter searches are not really good for this because of their limitation.