Archive for the ‘Twitter’ Category

Win a #SXSWi conference pass: Here’s how!

Friday, March 2nd, 2012

We love coworking.  In fact Tropo is headquartered inside NextSpace in San Francisco.  We love coworking so much that we’re giving away two passes to SXSWi to other coworkers that love coworking too.  All you have to do is follow Tropo on Twitter and tweet out what you love most about your coworking space.  The best tweets will win a conference pass to SXSW Interactive! (more…)

Customer Spotlight: Zapier

Friday, December 16th, 2011

We are excited to feature Zapier on this week’s Tropo Customer Spotlight! Today I sat down with Wade Foster, one of the co-founders of Zapier, to discuss their business and learn more about how they are using Tropo for their Instant Messaging services. (more…)

Tweetchat Mobile Lookup Powered by Tropo

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

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Scaling Your Twitter Support, Part 2: Triggering Alerts on Keywords

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

twitterlogo-shadow-2.jpgIf you want to scale your usage of Twitter and do more than just set up a “night service” (discussed in Part 1 and Part 1a), how about we create an app that triggers alerts based on keywords that appear in replies or mentions directed to your account?

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Scaling Your Twitter Support, Part 1a: Tweaking the “Night Service” app a wee bit

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

If you look closely at the code for nightservice.py that I mentioned yesterday in the post about 5 sample Twitter apps (and also posted the source code to Github), you’ll see that it is slightly different. Here was the original I wrote about back in May:

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Want to play with building Twitter apps on Tropo? Here’s source code for 5 sample apps.

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

twitterlogo-shadow-2.jpgIf you listened to yesterday’s Developer Jam Session, a good part of it discussed building Twitter apps on top of Tropo (slides are available). I’ve made the source code available from our Github account at: (more…)

Reminder: Beware of Duplicate Tweets When Testing Twitter Apps on Tropo

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

twitterlogo-shadow-2.jpgAre you building a Twitter application on top of Tropo? As a result of yesterday’s Developer Jam Session on building Twitter apps I know that a number of folks are trying it out… and one detail bears repeating when it comes to testing your app in development: (more…)

JavaScript Goes First Class With Tropo

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010

In the last couple of years, there have been some significant changes in the development landscape that have elevated the status of JavaScript.

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Get Notified When Someone Mentions You on Twitter

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

Please note, Twitter & IM support have been deprecated, as per this blogpost. Please direct any questions or concerns to support@tropo.com.

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New Tropo Powered Startup – VivaGrams!

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Tropo was a proud Gold-level sponsor of Startup Weekend Phoenix this weekend.  Chris Matthieu was onsite participating in the event and was able to work hands-on with the team behind Marc Chung and Natalie Melchiorre’s brainchild idea, VivaGrams.com.

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