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hey everybody it's joe from pocket now calm and are you really a good friend if you don't know what's going on the lives of all your other friends today I've got a couple of widgets that might just help you be a better friend the first one is for a social network that you may have heard of it's called Facebook apparently it's really popular with that comes a widget and this widget shows you really going kind of quickly the latest post of the people that you're following and it lets you scroll through and see I'm scrolling here really fast through a whole bunch I don't know how many that was but a dozen or more of the posts of all of your friends so it's really kind of neat one thing that I like it's a four by two widget it's nice it's pretty lets you share what's on your mind kind of quick we're going to use the nexus one voice recognition on this and put it to a real-time test i'm recording a widgets video for pocketnow.com and look at that did really great well go ahead and share that since publishing and my post was successful so all kinds of great i'm going to go ahead and move that up here to make room for the next one I'm really not much of a facebook guy I'm more of a Twitter guy myself so I'm going to show you a nap here called Twitter that comes with widgets but the widgets only come with a paid version or the premium versions they call it now the premium version is just a unlock code basically you download the free version of the app you configure it you buy the premium key and then you have access to the widgets and some other features like multiple account support and whatnot but for a couple bucks having these really cool widgets is kind of neat now I said it was a Twitter widget but it's not the Twitter widget it's by level up Studios the same people that brought you beautiful widgets that I showed you in a previous video this guy's from France so he spells Twitter with kind of a French flair and since I showed you the four by two widget of the Facebook widget I'm going to also pick the four by two widget of the Twitter widget the first thing that that you'll see when you're loading up this widget is it has a help screen and I think you're going to start seeing this more and more frequently when you drop a complicated widget or perhaps I just say a widget that has a lot of features sometimes it takes a while to get used to it and to figure out how to use it so having just a one screen overview to show you how to use this thing is really nice in this case you can see you can tap on any of the tweets to open that tweet up in the Twitter app you can tap over on the left to write your own tweet tap down in the bottom middle to refresh from the server get all the latest tweets and then over on the right to scroll through an additional screen of tweets so we'll say okay and it'll drop that right on the page this is it right down here you'll notice just like the Facebook widget there's no transparency or translucency which would be nice but it's not necessary in my opinion so you can see here I've got my latest three tweets one from Guy Kawasaki and oh just like that it changed to the second page I can tap down here to scroll through additional pages and its really pretty quick I can scroll through a whole bunch of pages really fast and see at a glance what all the people that I'm following you're doing if we can't let me see if I can find a nice linear this is kind of real time so let's go into chris pirillo will tap on his tweet it launches that full app and up here at the top is the chris pirillo tweet that we were just looking at let's go back home and i want to show you just like I did with facebook app how we can quickly post a tweet so we'll tap over there on the left again the tutorial showed us how tap up here I'm recording a video for pocketnow.com a little bit of recognition there you go I can attach a picture to it if I want I can shrink a URL or a link if I want using bit ly or some other preconfigured URL shortening service and of course then I can send it and right away it says that my status update has been sent so a quick look at to social networking widgets the stock one from facebook and then a paid for or premium version from level up studios for twitter i like them both very very much and it kind of adds a really quick glance to see what's going on in the life of your friends and we all know that the information that your friends give you are the most important information to you so it's good to have that right there on your home screen so I'm interested to see what you use for your widgets have you used Twitter spelled the French way to access Twitter spelled the normal way and what do you think of the Facebook widget do you have any other widgets that you like better or worse what do you think of these have you been able to contact the developers and ask for assistance or four for features added things that you'd like to be able to do with it you know I'd like to know and if you've got a few minutes in a video camera I'd really like to see what social networking widgets you have on your home screen so please do that reply down underneath this video and let us all know so talking on social networking widgets I am Joe Levi for pocketnow.com