Some new features go live today.

Manager
If you hit datatoy.net/manage (or click Manage in the datatoy header) you’ll be asked to authorise datatoy to connect with your Twitter account. Do this and you’ll get access to the collection manager.

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This has been the single biggest piece of feedback since datatoy went live, “how do I remove collections, remove mistaken tweets, and generally move things around?” Well now you can.

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At the moment it’s very simple stuff - show and hide collections, and remove mistaken tweets from your collections - that’s about it. But over the coming weeks this will become a full function manager for your tweets. All nice and secure through Twitter API Oauth goodness.

Just so you know - datatoy won’t be sending any tweets on your behalf, we just need to make sure you only edit your own collections. 

Links
Tweets often carry links. Photos of the top of the hill you just climbed, links to the book you just read, or to people you just met. We’ve been storing these for a whort while, but not displaying them. We now display links in a few areas on your profile and your collections.

As twitter clients tend to use shortening services which obfuscate the target of the links these lists looked a little random. Enter the LongURL project and an excellent JQuery plugin  to let you see where you’re going before you get there. Just hit the wee ‘expand’ buttons to see the end url.

There’s more fun URL stuff in the works, like thumbnails for image and video links, direct link to hashtags etc…

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Activity
And finally for today, a more focussed Recent Activity chart has been added to your profile pages, along with a links list  - both showing recent additions across all your collections.

As ever, feedback appreciated!