Loading seems to be taking a while

I've been getting the "Loading seems to be taking a while" error message when clicking on the @Connect tab on Twitter for about a month now. Pretty annoying. Anyone found a solutions for this?

Tweets, Google Search Results and Speech Ballons

This was news to me. Tweets now appear in Google's search results, in a speech balloon:

Following_me, Followers_me

Another Twitter bug :)

Soon 1000 followers! Thank you everyone for your follows

How to remove @replies from your Twitter feed

Ever wanted to filter the replies from your Twitter RSS feed? Easy with help of Yahoo Pipes and mat.su.

Below is a snapshot of my Twitter RSS feed. The first item in the feed is a @reply. I want a RSS feed without my @replies.



This is how to do it:

1. Go to the filtering pipe.
2. Enter your username and click "Run Pipe".
3. Click on "Get as RSS" and you are done. Now you got a new RSS feed, where your @replies has been filtered.
   

Here's a snapshot of my new RSS feed. As you can see, the @replies has been removed:

Why I should stop using TweetDeck

I like TweetDeck, but its memory usage is bringing my machine to its knees:

Using 300MB to read a few 140 character long Twitter messages, that is just silly. To put those 300MB in perspective to what the processes normally use on a WinXP machine:

Is this a memory leak in TweetDeck, or is there a general problem with the Adobe AIR platform? What would you suggest to use instead of TweetDeck? Twhirl?

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