Archive for the "Development" Category

26.May.2010 Experiencing some issues

Right now we’re experiencing some issues with embedded twitterfountains. The new font system won’t load from some domains, which freezes the fountain at the ‘loading fonts’ screen. If you see this error, try clearing your browser cache and reloading the site containing the fountain.
Also, there’s a problem with checking the ‘twitpic’ box in the images [...]

22.Apr.2010 New animation style

While working on the recent addition of japanese fonts, I found some time to experiment with new animation styles for the Twitterfountain.

The new animation style uses a 3D effect to display 1 twitter message at a time.

To select the animation, choose ’swing’ from the message animation settings.

The new animation is still in Beta, like [...]

21.Apr.2010 Try out the new japanese font support

We’ve had many requests for including japanese characters in the Twitterfountain animations. The reason this feature wasn’t included from the start is that the twitterfountain animation cannot use system fonts (for example, a Japanese font on the computer of a Japanese user). System fonts simply don’t look very good when used in animation!
We’ve finally come [...]

13.Apr.2010 Build your own Twitterfountain using just an URL

For all of you out there that want things quicker and easier, this might help you out!
Our resident hackers have come up with a way to quickly build a Twitterfountain without having to visit the Twitterfountain-site and going through all the settings! Simply type in the url http://twitterfountain.com/custom/yourkeyword and replace yourkeyword with the hashtag or [...]

29.Jan.2010 All your version 1 Twittterfountains belong to us

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 [...]