Tweetwhatyoueat is taking the first step towards a site redesign by having the Tweetwhayoueat logo refreshed. We’ve chosen to hold a design contest, awarding the best logo design and badge art for display on our Twitter page $250 cash. The contest is being held by 99designs and so far we have received 13 submissions, all of have been good. You can see all the current design submissions here: http://99designs.com/contests/11943

Help judge the submissions or submit one of your own!

Have you written in with feedback on the TWYE design in the past? Do you have a critical eye? Are you an active TWYE user with an opinion? This is your opportunity to provide feedback and shape the future design of Tweetwhatyoueat. Your vote counts!

Take a look at the contest page here. Add your comments on design submissions by referencing the design # on the contest page in your comments. Hurry though, the contest ends in 6 days.

The contest page has design all the design requirements from our team here. We want a logo that’s fun, has character, and gives a slight nod back to Twitter which has made the Tweetwhatyoeuat application possible. Feel free to share your ideas, critiques of the design submissions so far, and suggestions for imagery to try as part of the logo below in the comments. We will get the feedback to the designers working on the logo.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Team TWYE has been working furiously through the summer heat to bring weight tracking to Tweetwhatyoueat. A new “Weight” tab will soon be added to your diary allowing you to post, and privately view your weight entries as easily as you post food entries on TWYE today. Below is a screenshot of the new Weight tab. Your diary will now have two tabs allowing you to toggle between food entries and weight entries (food tab show active).



Posting a new weight entry is easy! Here are some syntax examples.

• ‘d twye #170’ weigh-in at 170 pounds
• ‘d twye #171 - couldn’t keep my hands out of the cookie jar’ weigh-in at 171 pounds with optional comment! Add a comment to your entry by using a dash “-” followed by the comment text

Weight entries are broken up by month and display the: date/time of your entry, the weight value in Kilos or Pounds, and an optional comment about the weight entry.

A new setting under Edit Settings will allow you to choose your preferred unit of measure for weight entries - Kilos or Pounds.

A few other quick things of note:

1. Weight entries will not appear on the homepage. Rest assured
2. People viewing your diary will only see food entries, not your weight entries

The target release date for weight tracking is end of July. Please feel free to post comments/questions about the functionality below. Any other ideas for weight-related syntax are welcome!

Tweetwhatyoueat is putting the finishing touches on some exciting new changes to bring you an improved, one-of-a-kind food diary experience with unparalleled ease of use. We’ve added this News section to keep you informed of the upcoming changes. Here’s what’s in store for the new Tweetwhatyoueat!

• Sticky Food Profiles – Anytime you enter calories for a food in your diary, TWYE will remember that value and automatically apply it to all subsequent entries. We call these “Sticky food profiles.” You can override the profile on an individual basis by editing an entry directly.
• Zero calorie, calorie look-ups – Enable the new “use food profiles” setting and TWYE will automatically try and match uncaloried foods in your diary with calorie entries submitted by other users. It’s calorie crowd sourcing and it’s a first, only from Tweetwhatyoueat.

Below is a sneak peak of how your diary will look when the new “use food profiles” setting is on. “n/a” entries in your diary will be auto-filled with calorie amounts if someone else in the community has eaten that food and assigned it a calorie value.

Clicking the calorie amount opens the food profile dialogue (as seen above) revealing the available calorie profiles for that food. Profiles in the dialogue are weighted. Any profile submitted or selected by you appears at the top of the list and is designated with a “me” icon. Profiles are then ranked by the number of users using them.

The calorie value of the active profile is shown in-line in your diary. If you haven’t selected or submitted a profile directly using the food profile dialogue, the highest ranked food profile will be used by default when the setting is activated. You can always select an alternate food profile from the dialogue at any point by clicking it. This will retroactively apply the profile to all previous entries for that food.

We’d love to hear from you about these changes so please post your questions and comments.