Twhois News

We just released a major update for our android app, adding localized versions for French, Italian and Chinese.

We would like to thank mr Xue Kai from Android Dep. of NetDragon Websoft Inc. ( http://ir.netdragon.us/ ) for his help on creating the Chinese versions of our app.

If anyone would like to help improving existing translation or submit a new one, feel free to download the strings.xml file.

The new version is available in the Android Market, obviously for free

We are very proud to present you our new Android application featuring the Twhois service.

The App was realized as experiment and is still an Alpha version. It’s compatible with Android 1.5+ (tested until 2.1) and is very rough as layout.

From the main window you can type the username of a tweep you’re interested on, and then press the Twhois this button.

After a bit of loading (please be patient, we still need to put the loading animation) you will retrieve exactly the same data presented on our main website. Avatar, full name, company and role details, a short biography and obviously the Social networks profiles of the desired user. As show below data are presented very schematically.

Downloads

You can install the application directly from the Android market searching for twhois or com.ao.twhois

Alternatively you can use the following QR or download the .apk directly.

We continue working on the editing part of twhois and today we’re releasing the first part of the remove feature we were asked to implement.

Logging in via Twitter API you are now able to delete previously added profiles. This means that the red cross shown above will only be present for links you added manually from the ‘Add profiles’ button.

We’re working hard to release the second part of the script soon, so that you will be able to delete automatically imported profiles too.

While you’re waiting don’t forget to fill out bugs!

Looking at our stats on Google Analytics I saw that Brazilian and Japanese visitors are more then USA ones!

We discovered that many bloggers from those two countries wrote about twhois and just wanted to thank them all for their precious help on making our site known by their fellow citizens.

ありがとう and Obrigado to you, our friends!

Our crawling system can not be perfect of course and many of you recently complained about missing important links in your own home pages on Twhois.

During last days we managed to improve our editing script, increasing the personalization possibilities by enabling the ‘Add profiles’ button.

After you logged in via twitter and pressed the button, it would open a nice popup containing a simple form. Needed parameters are the Link, a Description and the Type of url you’re adding. If you select a social website you probably need to complete even the last field (Username).

After submitting the form you should be able to see your brand new profile at the top of the list of your links.

This feature is highly experimental so please expect some bugs and remember to fill out feedbacks!

We obviously understand that even ‘delete’ and ‘sort’ functions are needed and we’re working to them right now!