Excellent news people - you no longer need to include the semi colon in tweets to your datatoy collections.
You can still use a semicolon, but when a simple message like this works so well why would you?
Just make sure you put *collectionname BEFORE anything else you want to catch.
Some examples:
*tunes led zep
*biketraining 10km
*biscuits 12 custard creams
Just to be clear. Until this morning if you wanted to add a chicken sandwich to your lunch collection you had to put “*lunch :chicken sandwhich”, now you just put “*lunch chicken sandwich”. Both work, but the new way is better and will work for ever. The old way might disappear if we reuse the semicolon for something else.
Why the * and : and stuff? « Datatoy Blog 4:51 am on May 9, 2009 Permalink
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