I remember when I first started using twitter: I had a Motorola Razor that I could use to call people and play Tetris. It was pretty much useless by today’s standards of cell phones, but it was super thin.
I remember turning on device updates for everyone that I followed on twitter. At the time my cell phone was the only way I really interacted with twitter. You can imagine as I started to follow more people on twitter my device updates increased. It got to the point where I was getting a text message every five minutes.
I loved the notifications at first, but after a while it got really old. It would have been okay if not for one of my friends. He was the guy that decided to send in about five tweets at a time talking about a TV show or a sports game. I could really care less what he thought of a referees call. My love for device updates quickly was ending by turning them off.
We all follow that one person that likes to talk about American Idol, Glee, or Lost a little too much. Sometimes you wish they would do it somewhere else. Or how about that guy or gal that is at a conference and becomes a tweeting machine by quoting everything the speaker says.
Sometimes it is okay to get some of the updates, but after a while your twitter stream starts to get backed up with tweets from one person. Maybe you like this, but I myself could do without the running commentary about everything that is happening on a American Idol, sporting event, or conferences.
Maybe there’s an app for that…
Hot Potato is your app!
The app is filed under social networking which is the same category of services like Facebook and Twitter.
The ability to log into events and participate in the chat without having to go to a web page is a great feature of this app. As the service continues to grow the app continues to get better and better. I have been using it for the past week and have had some problems with it shutting down or quitting for no reason, although I will put up with this annoyance for the ability to see the live page event and the opportunity to chat through this service.
Most of the times at these live events you are unable to use your laptop or get wifi, this app provides the opportunity to partake in live events and follow what others are saying.
Interesting app. i’ll have to check that out. thanks for sharing.
I had a Razor phone too. Worst phone I ever owned. I actually let a friend run it over with his car.
Yes, Razr’s were brutal, and yet at the time they were the thing to have. How times have changed.
Sweet app. Going to love trying it out and seeing how it works.
Yes I, too, get really annoyed by my feeds being dominated by the same person giving a blow by blow update on every single thing they are doing (think 37 updates in 5 minutes).
I’ll holler back and let you know how it works for me!
that would be great. Ya it is still in the process of being refined I think. I have it on my phone and notice some problems. But it has a lot of potential.
FYI
I’m at the iTunes download page and looking over the ratings, things aren’t looking too hot. Quite a few negative ratings (34 out of 72 votes give it only 1 star). YIKES!
That’s pretty bad. I normally stay away from apps with this many votes for 1 star. I’ll try it and we’ll see…
(Crossing fingers…)