Two Twitter Wantsies
Twitter is a social networking site that I’m part of. It’s very successful and very popular. Most people think of Bebo and people wasting their lives on it. Twitter’s not like that. Twitter is successful social networking.
It’s good, but there’s bugs, and room for improvement. Here’s the top two things that would increase my love for Twitter.
Number ONE: Integration with AIM
AIM was gone before I joined Twitter back in February, so I’m not sure exactly what it did. Anyway. If you have three windows open in your MSN client, with A, B and C. If I could code, I’d make something so that Twitter was a fourth conversation window. A “D”, as it were. When you type something into that conversation, it updates your status in Twitter, and your friend’s updates come in as replies too.
I screenshotted an IM conversation with Klara Golez. Then blanked out the messages, and replaced them with tweets. This is a rough idea of how my vision would work. Yeah I’m scrappy, and yes it’s only with me and @Klaraflame, but you get the idea (hopefully):
Number TWO: Text message integration
OK. OK. This is the fantasy wish. This probably won’t happen. Before August, Twitter would send you your follow-ees’ updates, and you could also tweet via SMS. This was awesome especially for my mum and dad – who, little known fact, are both on twitter -, because they never liked the web interface, finding it complicated. So, they used to use Twitter on their iPhones. Very low maintenance, very low tech, very simple. It was great for them.
Was great for me. I love twitter, and could follow the conversation when in company inconspicuously.
Then they removed it without warning, which, from reading people’s comments, annoyed people as much, if not more then the actual removal of the service. They said (and this is probably true) that it costs them 1000£/user to run the service, and they couldn’t keep it up.
I miss it. I want it back. I miss my day being punctuated with little tweets. I would even pay for the service.. anywhere up to.. 50 a year..
im not so sure about twitter in IM. it is still available for GTalk (http://url.ie/119s), though I don’t like that platform as much as the likes of Twhirl desktop client.
I too enjoyed receiving twitter txts before the platform was cancelled. Although frustrating, I’m also glad they stopped it for regular tweets as it did cost me quite a lot and now I follow many more people than I did then.
However, I would love to have it for DMs only. That is very useful.
Phil
30 Dec 08 at 6:43 pm
You say that it cost you quite a lot. Did it cost? Didn’t cost me :/
Tommy
30 Dec 08 at 8:10 pm