As of February 1st, we will switch over all existing version 1 Twitterfountains to the new version 2.0. If you’re using a version 1 Twitterfountain, you probably won’t even notice the switch. Except that, from Februari 1st, you will see a little pop-up message in the Twitterfountain telling you that you have been switched, and inviting you to come over here an get the new embed-code to enjoy all the new features.
Which new features? Well: there is a whole bunch of new animation styles, both for tweets and photo’s, you can use photo’s from Flickr or Picasa; we now support Twitpic and YFrog images as well, and there are alot more ways that you can customize the appearance of the Twitterfountain.
So, check your old blogs and pages starting February 1st and replace your TF to enjoy the best new version of Twitterfountain so far!
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That’s a nice start of the New Year, isn’t it? The new Twitterfountain has been released, and you can get the new version here. Simply adjust the settings and copy the embed-code to your blog.
Mind you, we are still working on updates of the official Wordpress-plugin and the OSX widget. We’ll let you know when they have been updated.
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Just a quick note to let you know that -although we did celebrate the Holidays- we will finally bring you the new Twitterfountain. On New Year’s Day!
We are thrilled to finally bring you a lot of the improvements you requested, and we promise you a lot more will follow suit in 2010. But let’s first take a look at what we’ll deliver in a few days:
- New styling:
- You can adjust the colors
- set a title bar
- hide the title bar
- seat a custom logo
- set a custom background
- New sources:
- You can choose between flickr and Picasa as image source
- You can select to display Twitpic and YFrog images as well
- Animations:
- We offer three animation types for the background images: Slideshow, Moving Slides and Stack
- we offer five animation types for the tweets: Fountain, Distance, Subtle Fade, Widget and Twirl
- And of course, all these animation types can be modified using the settings
- Better Full screen display
- Better Embedding
- Faster, smoother graphics and lighter processor load, because of the Improved animation engine
After releasing version 2.0, we will continue with other improvements. Some of those were requested, some will be added to offer complete new ways of use. We will let you know as soon as we’re ready.
Enjoy!
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Yes, finally! We are *very* happy to announce that a new version of Twitterfountain is coming, and it is coming real soon.
Over the last year we have seen the use of Twitterfountain rise, with installments on thousands of websites all over the world. And all that time, you have told us what you would like Twitterfountain to do for you. We have tried to incorporate as much of your requests as possible, and we will include even more in the near future.
Some of the items that we will fix in the upcoming release are:
- more styling options to customize the appearance of Twitterfountain
- An option to set a static background image
- displaying Flickr or Picasa images
- displaying images from tweets (using twitpic and or yFrog)
- smoother animation, less processor load
- more animation types
… and a lot more. Stay tuned for some more details later this week, and get ready to sign up for a private beta account for Twitterfountain3.0 as well!
In the mean time, we want to once again extend our gratitude to you, the users, for helping us make Twitterfountain even better. Please keep using the Uservoice tab to give us your feedback!
Update (saturday nov 7th, 14.00): Twitterfountains work properly once more. Happy Fountains!
Lately, we get some concerned emails regarding failing Twitterfountains. The fountain says “Twitter search failed. Please refresh the page.”. Unfortunately, there is nothing we at Twitterfountain can do about that right now.
The root of the error has to do with a so-called crossdomain.xml file that is hosted on Twitter’s servers. Everytime you start a Twitterfountain, we send a request to that specific file. Earlier this week, it was accidentally removed by twitter, and subsequently replaced. But now it has stopped accepting ‘calls’ from third parties. Thus crippling Twitterfountains and other (mostly flash-based) Twitter applications.
We are awaiting response from Twitter, to hear if this change is permanent or not. In the meantime, we are researching viable alternatives. Hang in there.
