Posted by
tohu.vavohu on Monday, September 15, 2008 3:49:00 AM
No permanent site, but you can follow HHRadio live feeds during his show in these ways:
using firefox, search.twitter, and some tweet/twitter program
If you don’t already have Firefox, download and install.
One way to get a live feed of HHRadio tweets is to use search.twitter.com. You could have the page up and keep hitting refresh but I found a Firefox add-on that will automatically refresh the page at intervals you can determine equaling a live feed. Download and install ReloadEvery 3.0.0 [click “Add to Firefox” green button]. [ReloadEvery picture series] Now open a tab and go to the HHRadio twitter feed. Right click in the open window, hover over “Reload Every”, when side menu pops up chose a “Reload Every [xx]s”. I recommend either 10s or 30s because 5s seems a bit to “fast” when picked. Or do the same thing via a drop down menu on the reload button. The page will now reload every [xx]sec and display any new messages that have HHRadio in the tweet message. [HHRadio twitter feed refresh setup picture series].
You can then use any program you wish to send tweets using your twitter account. Anything that sparks your fancy, a rundown of quite a few can be found at the Twitter Fan Wiki page [home]. But I’ll cover three [picture series for options at end of third option]:
1st Option -- Have an extra tab open, sign in to twitter account, and tweet from there. You can switch from HHRadio feed tab and your twitter account tab.
2nd Option -- **My favorite** There is a great little twitter tweet-er called TwitBin that can be a sidebar element in Firefox. This will make it so you can have a twitter tweet-er visible with the refreshing HHRadio feed right next to it. Download and install TwitBin. After install, you will see the TwitBin next to your address bar at the top, click it. A sidebar will appear on the left side of the browser titled TwitBin, click on the house icon; this will allow you to enter in your username and password. After entering in your info, click “Login”. You can choose a preference of seeing a public feed, your friends feed, direct messages feed, or reply messages and how often TwitBin will go fetch new tweets. I recommend setting it to friends so you can see who’s tweeting you personally. You can find preferences just left of the house icon. When set hit “Save Prefs”. To refresh the TwitBin sidebar tweets, click the refresh icon just right of the house. Now in the text field just below those icons you can type a tweet and hit enter. As you type, up in the right of the sidebar element, it will tell you how many characters you have left. After hitting enter, it will immediately appear in the TwitBin sidebar. You can logout any time by clicking “logout”. With TwitBin you can have a tweet-er open with the auto refreshing HHradio live feed in the same window [no switching windows or programs]. I like this setup the best. Close the TwitBin sidebar by clicking the [X] on the sidebar or clicking the TwitBin logo next to the address bar. [see how TwitBin and HHRadio live feed look together in same browser in the picture series below]
3rd Option – you can have a separate program running outside of your browser [like Twhirl] and send tweets from there, while watching the HHRadio live twitter feed. I mentioned Twhirl and you can download and install here.
[tweet-er programs [setup] picture series]
Instead of using the search.twitter feed with the “Reload Every” option, you could use monitter. [monitter picture series]
using text messaging via phone
You can find instructions on how to set up and use from the twitter devices help page. Here’s a quick rundown:
1. Setup twitter to recognize your phone number [one twitter account to one phone number] – [I also recommend to turn updates off unless you have a really good text plan through carrier. Tweets from those you’re following could be numerous. Need help turning off?] – [Mobile setup picture series]
2. In the U.S.A. text your message to # 40404. Out of U.S.? Your tweet limit is still 140 characters even as a text, be careful. If you are texting a message you want to show on the HHRadio live feed, don’t forget to include “HHRadio” in text/tweet. If you don’t include HHRadio in text/tweet, it will not be filtered and found for inclusion in live feed.
3. Have a good text plan and want to have the HHRadio feed sent to your phone via text, you can have it track the feed. Text “track HHRadio” to 40404. I’m testing it out but if you notice updates to HHRadio live feed on the web but not on your phone via text, try texting “track hhradio” to 40404. Every tweet that has HHRadio included will be sent as a text to your phone so you can keep up to date.
More info: Twitter Phone FAQ, FAQ
using IM
Twitter has made it “temporarily unavailable” as they make it better. There are things out there you can use [TwitterSpy, Twitt’d], but use at your own risk. Both given are limiting and not very impressive to me.
using iPhone
Google it and you see there is an assortment of things you can use, but I hear Hahlo 3.1 is pretty hard to beat. It’s made for the iPhone and iTouch but if you want, you can use it on a standard home computer browser. [Hahlo picture series]
follow
Send tweets with HHRadio included during the show [think of the traffic during the third hour Friday, during movie hour] or when it’s off air. Whenever you want to send something to Hugh's way. Send info, links to articles, replies to Hugh’s questions [on air, off air], advice, comments. Call Hugh [currently, first time ladies/gals/women callers only] and mention the twitter HHRadio feed. Try and get Hugh Hewitt to do more tweets and info through his HHRadio twitter.
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