Continuing on our streak of guest writers, Scott K and I have some ideas to make twitter better. I have not decided if these are big enough to be a business, but maybe they could be added to existing twitter extensions to make the service better. I have spent some time emailing twitter and asking for my bookmark idea, but they must not check email often because I have not heard back. . . jerks ahahaha. . . anyways
Bookmarks -Anthony:
I have been spamming twitter forever telling them that I need a bookmark in my tweet stream. Especially the one on my phone. I like to be up to date on all of my friends latest activities. . . It is so annoying when you are starting at the most recent tweet (the one I want to read first) then going down the list and not knowing where to stop. Give me a bookmark that stops me at my last read tweet. Honestly, this would take 2 seconds twitter. All you would have to do is store the tweetid in a hidden row of the profile database. (any programmer should understand that)
Spoilers – Scott K:
If I’m watching a live event, like for instance, the USA vs. Canada Hockey game, but I’m about 15 minutes or even 5 hours behind Live TV, I’d like to restrict the twitter view to a particular time-frame to avoid spoilers but still checkout to see what people are saying about the game at the point in time I am watching it. This same functionality could be useful to ‘rewind’ twitter back to an earlier time-frame rather than repeatedly clicking show ‘more’ at the bottom of twitter to show older content.
Twitter is notorious for slow iteration and rolling out new products. Did you hear Facebook just patented the news feed. Twitter will add a little feature every once in a while. Like, how about when Twitter added lists. . . remember that? They should have started with lists, and lists should have been called groups. Everyone knows that lots of good modifications and new features keep people coming back, get you in the news, and get you new users. In my opinion, twitter is slow to iterate. . . But hey, I still use it daily, so they must be doing something right.
Now would be a good time to pitch. . . follow me on twitter.
Thanks Scott for your help with todays article! Scott has tons of new ideas and I want to get this guy writing regularly for VBI. Keep them coming man!
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