Comments on: Brizzly – Making Twitter More Like Friendfeed

By: rjamestaylor

rjamestaylor — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:05:34 +0000

Seems they published these on their Help page:
http://brizzly.com/help

Do you have any keyboard shortcuts?

Yes! Here they are:

j – move to next item
k – move back to previous item
v – open link
h – return home (top of the screen)
c – compose
r – refresh
/ – search

By: Elad Kehat

Elad Kehat — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 05:45:59 +0000

Thanks for documenting these shortcuts Curt.
Funny that I didn’t think to try them before. They’re the same as in gmail, so easy to remember.

By: Curt Grymala

Curt Grymala — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:41:51 +0000

Thanks for the comments, so far, guys. I didn’t realize that Twitter automatically shortened URLs for you, too. It is entirely possible that the URL that was automatically shortened during my test was a result of Twitter doing so rather than Brizzly.

I forgot to mention the keyboard shortcuts in my review. Unfortunately, though, these are another seemingly nice feature that still has yet to be documented within the service. There is a “tip” in the top left corner that says “j” and “k” will scroll through your tweets. However, it doesn’t tell you what you can do with a tweet while you’ve got it selected. I haven’t found any keyboard shortcuts that allow you to favorite a selected tweet or reply to it or anything.

I have tested most of the logical keys on my keyboard and found that the following shortcuts exist:
j – scrolls to the next tweet in your timeline
k – scrolls to the previous tweet in your timeline
h – returns to your “home” screen (your main timeline)
r – refreshes the list of tweets you’re currently viewing
c – focuses your cursor in the textarea used to post a new tweet
/ – focuses your cursor in the search box

Those are the only shortcuts I’ve identified.

By: Richard Cunningham

Richard Cunningham — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:45:28 +0000

I think the URL shortening you are talking about is just what is provided by Twitter themselves when you tweet.

If you are looking for a tool that lets you “experience the social web” then you might want to look at FriendBinder which supports Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and several others.

By: Elad Kehat

Elad Kehat — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:31:15 +0000

I’ve been using brizzly for the last two weeks or so and I just love it. I much prefer the interface to hootsuite, cotweet etc.
I see the lack of multiple columns as an advantage actually, as it lets me focus on one account at a time. I guess they can easily solve this by letting you know when there are some updates in one of the other accounts.

By: Alex Wilhelm

Alex Wilhelm — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:20:11 +0000

Curtiss,

Great review, I have been meaning to get back into my Brizzly account. I suppose though, that the lack of multi-column support will for me be a deal breaker. Although I understand that a single column view can work (I love Tweetie), I think that when I am at a computer, why not use TD?

Although, it is (along with Seesmic web) much, much, much better than the trashy built in Twitter.com interface. More or less anything is a step up from that.

And about the “social web” slight, even though I never got onto the FriendFeed train, I do agree with you.
Alex