Snitter says that tracking is not supported by the twitter API. THAT SUCKS. Ok I’ll get over it, I really will. I actually didn’t realize this until today when I decided to turn gtalk back on as well for other reasons (coming up). I like twitter tracking because it gives you a feel for what is happening on twitter with a specific topic, and I’ve met some interesting people that way. I’m missing out on one of the things I think is great about twitter. I like that snitter works in the background, I like that I can see followers, I like that snitter is discreet.

Gtalk is great for twitter because all the conversations then become instantly searchable someplace that I live a lot of the time anyway:my gmail inbox. The shortcoming of using gtalk with twitter is that it annoyingly beeps and opens a window (or sub-window depending on how you use it) that I don’t want open most of the time. I just wish that twitter would send me all my tweets on gtalk regardless if I was online of not. I wouldn’t mind getting a whole boatload of messages when I first sign in for the day (assuming I didn’t leave any of my computers logged in overnight. I have found myself NOT leaving a computer on overnight lately though, so I feel like I’m missing out.

So I’ve heard of people setting it up so that their twitter RSS feed gets set up to email them to their gmail account and then it is appropriately tagged and and archived via filters, and this is the workaround (kludgy, but it’ll do for now) for keeping it searchable, but what I want to know is will it also address the tracking issue? I doubt it since my tracking items don’t show up in any RSS feed I get from twitter, or the fact that I just really like Snitter for day to day use.

What do I do???