Comments on: Meet Brizzly, My New Twitter Client

By: George M.

George M. — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:42:56 +0000

yap, same here!

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:37:41 +0000

Looks like it's finished now, nice work and very fast conversion. I <3 Brizzly.

By: gxg

gxg — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:08:43 +0000

a new announcement from brizzly about the integration with lists:
“brizzly: We're going to be converting your Brizzly groups to Twitter lists in a bit. Don't be scared. We'll update you when it's done. (about 1 hour ago from Brizzly)”

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:15:17 +0000

Agreed, saved searches are huge for me, especially seeing when they're updated. Lots of good stuff in Brizzly.

By: uvox

uvox — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:10:39 +0000

Saved searches is another one. I can never remember what hastags, keywords, etc I used…

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:05:15 +0000

Agreed, there are a lot of nice interface enhancements that seem small until you go without them.

By: uvox

uvox — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:53:57 +0000

I do like the “mute” option and the way it renders youtube videos inline.

By: Kaz

Kaz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:38:52 +0000

Thanks! : )

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:23:58 +0000

On its way, share your thoughts here if you like.

By: Kaz

Kaz — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00:56 +0000

great review – would love an invite!

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:09:14 +0000

I run Ubuntu too, and although I've never really looked for a Twitter client, I'm sure there are some good ones out there. Anyway, Brizzly works great on the Chrome dev build. You didn't provide an email address, which I'll need to invite you.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:37:20 +0000

Hmm, didn't know Twitter lists had limitations. Makes sense I suppose. Found the Facebook account setting, thanks. Bummed to hear you're not integrating another authentication mechanism. Seems easier for a new service, vs. managing credentials. Anyway, appreciate your input thanks.

Update: Just read that lists can have up to 500 members.

By: rodreegez

rodreegez — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:36:25 +0000

hey, I've just set up an ubuntu machine and am looking for something akin to Tweetie on the Mac. Brizzly sounds like it might do all that and more?

does anyone have a spare invite?

By: Grant S

Grant S — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:35:15 +0000

Yes, we'll have the same limitations as Twitter lists once we support them: 20 lists, 200 users per list.

As for Facebook, sorry, I meant to mention that: yes, you should be able to add a Facebook account. Just go to Settings > Facebook and click "Add your Facebook account." If you don't see that in your account for some reason, log out and log back in, then try again. If you still don't see it, let me know (I'm grant at thinglabs).

Speed-wise: indeed, we're always looking for opportunities to make it faster. OpenID/Facebook Connect as a general login isn't on the roadmap, though we do use Connect to authenticate your Facebook account.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:07:31 +0000

On its merry way.

By: uvox

uvox — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:14:11 +0000

OK. I'll bite. I'd like one too please.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:58:49 +0000

Thanks for commenting and good on ya for your work on Brizzly. I've only used the photo service once and obviously the guts behind it didn't stick. So, thanks for clarifying that. Glad to hear about lists, sounds like the right plan. I assume you'll relax the 5 groups/50 members limitations for importing lists?

Did you release the Facebook integration yet? I don't see it. My number one request (not that you asked) is make it faster, followed closely by please-please-please support FB Connect and/or OpenID.

Awesome work, keep on truckin.

By: Grant S

Grant S — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:10:33 +0000

Hi Jake,

Thanks for the post! I work on Brizzly at Thing Labs, and wanted to clear up a couple of things:

1. The photo service we use is our own. We informally call it Brizzly Pics. Ex: http://brizzly.com/pic/4V9
2. We will indeed soon be supporting Twitter's lists, allowing you to import Twitter lists into Brizzly and vice versa.

And if anyone else needs an invitation, try out http://brizzly.com/signup?invite=grantsentme

-Grant

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:54:41 +0000

Great, thanks for chiming in with invites.

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:54:26 +0000

Excellent review, very concise. Like the egomaniac I am, I only covered the features I use and like Eventually, all the Twitter clients will have to support lists, but only the ones that filled that gaping hole in Twitter's functionality with groups will have a load of development work.

Normalizing the client's groups with lists will be a fun process for developers.