I've been frustrated for ages with how WordPress deals with user profile fields. There's a "default" set of contact fields, which has always looked random to me: AIM, Yahoo IM and Jabber / Google Talk. A while back I got frustrated enough to have a look at how this is actually dealt with in the [...]

Twitter is great for traffic, but just how great it is, well, you'll never really know. Why not? You'll ask. Well, the only traffic you'll see coming from Twitter is traffic that comes through Twitters web interface. And most people I know don't use the web interface, they use desktop and / or phone clients. [...]

For those who you who've been following me on Twitter (if you don't, it's about time, I'm @jdevalk!), the fact that I was working on a Tweetbacks plugin for WordPress is no news. We've just officially made the announcement on SmashingMagazine, so go read how to implement it there and install Tweetbacks for WordPress on [...]

I've recently had some fun with developing the TwitterCounter API (to which we've added Twitter Rank yesterday) and my first Mint Pepper for it, and I decided it was time to add another milestone to my development career.
I'd never developed Widgets for Apple's Dashboard yet, but I had seen Dashcode, and that it seemed pretty [...]

This story shows the power of Twitter and how you should always be prepared for major traffic spikes.
Last night, in the beginning of the evening, @michielb twittered that he made a list of most used Twitter clients. I thought it looked pretty cool and asked him if that was measured by unique users or total [...]

As you know I'm a big fan of TwitterCounter, and Boris, its creator and founder is one of the few Dutch entrepreneurs I'm actually a fan of, as he really seems to get the "new" web.
I emailed him last week, asking why TwitterCounter didn't have an API, and we started talking about what an [...]

Twitter is now officially a part of my life. I find myself checking Twitter more often then my email, and that, I guess, forces me to be smart about how I use it.
I've been using Twitterific and Twinkle side by side for a while, but both annoyed me at times. They look like this:

I was [...]

I wanted to show my latest tweet on the front page of this site, and although I know there are several plugins which probably could've helped me do this, I decided to see how easy the API was to use.
It turned out to be incredibly easy, as long as you have PHP 5.2 or higher, [...]

Fellow Dutchman Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten has created a new service called TwitterCounter, a nice little service to show you your followers over time and, more importantly in my opinion: it gives you a nice little chicklet, FeedBurner style, to show off your followers, check out mine:

I'd say go get one for yourself, and show [...]

Note: if you like this post, read my post on Twitter iPhone apps side by side.
I've been hooked on Twitter for a while now, (I'm @jdevalk, follow me!) and I use Twitterific mostly when I'm at my Mac. Rae invited me and a couple of other people, through Twitter of course, to do a [...]