Making Twitter Better
28/06/09 13:18 Filed in: Twitter
I have some ideas for making Twitter better that I’d like to share with you. If you like these ideas please twit about this blog and maybe the Twitter folks will take notice and think about implementing them.
1) If you’re like me you’re becoming frustrated by people you’ve just blocked showing up with tweets. You un-follow them, you block them and you feel like that should be the end of them! They aren’t supposed to be able to follow you anymore but then you use some software to follow everyone that’s following you and WAMMMO there they are again. My solution to this is to use Tweetdeck to intentionally Ignore most people and focus just on people I have deemed tweet-worthy. Now I know what you’re going to say, “why follow a bunch of people that tweet things you don’t like to read”. Well it’s called the scientific process! You do a huge random sampling of a bunch of people and then go through a process of elimination by which you end up with only those you find interesting. Un-follow and Block are the mechanisms that should be making this possible, but they’re not functioning at present. Twitter needs to address this.
2) Tweetdeck has a rather nice feature that allows you to create groups, what would be even nicer would be the ability to converse with members of that group only. This would be a great courtesy to those who are following you but they aren’t part of the current conversation you’re having. These groups would have to be easy to create on the fly and it would also have to be easy to add new people to the conversation. There is a service that does something like this called “Shout em”. So I guess this would be like that but inside the confines of the Twitterverse.
3) I would like to see personal Twitter pages become more customizable. It would be great for people to be able to put more information about themselves, embed media etc. Myspace and Facebook are emulating some of the things that Twitter is doing I think turnabout is fair play here! It might make for more interesting conversations if we all had a little more information about each other. This would also be a great avenue for self expression as well.
All great web services and applications tend to evolve, I really feel that incorporation of these ideas need to be incorporated into the next evolution of Twitter.
1) If you’re like me you’re becoming frustrated by people you’ve just blocked showing up with tweets. You un-follow them, you block them and you feel like that should be the end of them! They aren’t supposed to be able to follow you anymore but then you use some software to follow everyone that’s following you and WAMMMO there they are again. My solution to this is to use Tweetdeck to intentionally Ignore most people and focus just on people I have deemed tweet-worthy. Now I know what you’re going to say, “why follow a bunch of people that tweet things you don’t like to read”. Well it’s called the scientific process! You do a huge random sampling of a bunch of people and then go through a process of elimination by which you end up with only those you find interesting. Un-follow and Block are the mechanisms that should be making this possible, but they’re not functioning at present. Twitter needs to address this.
2) Tweetdeck has a rather nice feature that allows you to create groups, what would be even nicer would be the ability to converse with members of that group only. This would be a great courtesy to those who are following you but they aren’t part of the current conversation you’re having. These groups would have to be easy to create on the fly and it would also have to be easy to add new people to the conversation. There is a service that does something like this called “Shout em”. So I guess this would be like that but inside the confines of the Twitterverse.
3) I would like to see personal Twitter pages become more customizable. It would be great for people to be able to put more information about themselves, embed media etc. Myspace and Facebook are emulating some of the things that Twitter is doing I think turnabout is fair play here! It might make for more interesting conversations if we all had a little more information about each other. This would also be a great avenue for self expression as well.
All great web services and applications tend to evolve, I really feel that incorporation of these ideas need to be incorporated into the next evolution of Twitter.
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