FishTwits Blog

10-13-09

Site Update: Pick your hits and buy some art

This week’s update brings you the favorites functionality that I promised last week – we call them “Hits”. At the bottom right of each tweet, you’ll now see a button labeled “Hit?”. If you like the tweet, just click it to light up the bobber and mark it as a “hit”.

The second piece of this is that the “freshest catches” label at the top of the fishfeed has been joined by “biggest hits”. Click “biggest hits” to see the tweets which have been recently marked as hits by the most users – older hits do still count, but not as much as newer ones. To go back to showing the newest tweets first, just click “freshest catches”.

The other major change you’re sure to notice is the addition of paintings by Savlen Studios to the right of the fishfeed, below the “most popular” box. If you see something you like, you can click through to Savlen’s site and order any of the paintings displayed on FishTwits or commission your own “bragging rights” portrait, in which Mike Savlen will transform a photo of your choice into a custom painting.