It appears the Twitter IM bots are still down, but have no fear, we just added support for notification updates to go along with the release of status updating last week. What can I say, we’re opportunists!

If you’ve already setup twitter as an IMified service you’ll now see the menu option “Toggle Notifications”. Selecting this option will turn on and off notifications. You might also want to create a couple shortcuts for posting to twitter and toggling notifications for super fast twittering.

Enjoy

Over the weekend we added Twitter as a new IMified service. We definitely feel their pain trying to keep an IM bot up and running. We’ve had our own issues in case you haven’t noticed ; ) So when the twitter bot is down feel free to get your twit on over here. For now, all you can do is post status updates but we may build in some other api features if you guys want them. Let us know.

Btw, our twitter id is, you guessed it, imified. We’ll be posting dev news and service updates so feel free to add us, we can use the friends.

We hate to offer up a “hack” for the recent issue with our Gtalk/Jabber screen name but it’s starting to look like we might need another day or two to work out a permanent solution. Current Jabber users can add the screen name “IMified2@gmail.com” to your buddy list and interact with it the same as you would with the other screen name.

** Note: Presence based reminders will not work using this screen name. Reminders will still go to your IM client but will not be sent to your email and or mobile if offline.

Here’s a little insight into what’s going on. We connect to the talk.google.com server to run our Gtalk/Jabber screen name. We are a bit of an anomoly in that we are a screen name running on their server with an extraordinarily high number of buddies, all requesting and receiving presence when the buddy list loads. While we haven’t spoken to Google yet, it looks like their server(s) are having a tough time sending out our presence and receiving our buddies’ presence when we start up the bot.

We’re doing a bit of trailblazing here and expected to run up against some roadblocks along the way. Running a popular bot on different networks presents some challenges as each has their own quirks and rules. Thanks for sticking with us!

We are feverishly working to resolve this issue. Thanks for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience.

In a perfect world all the networks, AIM, Yahoo, and MSN would all run on XMPP. Unfortunately, that’s not the case and IMified is at the mercy of the networks we run on. Except of course Gtalk/Jabber which do run on XMPP. In any event, because you guys are being uber productive using IMified on Yahoo, they’ve taken our buddy down. If your wondering “why would Yahoo take down a service that their users obviously want to use?”, we’re working on getting that answer. So far we’re confident we have removed any future issues with AIM as we are in the process of signing a network agreement with them and are also working on the same with MSN/WLM. We’ve got some calls and emails into Yahoo and are waiting on a response. We’ll let you know whats going on as soon as we know.