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Re: Twitter as a Community Tool

Guy P — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:26:10 -0000

One of the problems with groups is that Twitter usage varies so widely by topic... you wouldn't want to receive all the messages from everybody on the MIT campus, for example. It would be cool if a "group" was like a special kind of user, so when you directly messaged them "d MITwitter worst spaghetti ever in cafe" it was automatically spat out of their Twitter feed.

If Twitter could keep it trivial to start a group like "the five of us who are going for dinner tonight" then I would be all over that like *whoa.*

Re: Twitter as a Community Tool

Justin Kownacki — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:46:24 -0000

It's possible that groups are SO obviously a good idea, they simply held them back from the initial release, so they could drop them in "by popular demand" down the line...

Re: Twitter as a Community Tool

Jim Long — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:20:19 -0000

Twitter groups seems like a drop-dead simple idea. Which crossed my mind too. I'm sure it occured to the people who designed it and I'm surprised that it wasn't part of the original package. Twitter is cool, no doubt about it, as is your easy to digest breakdown of it's usefulness on Lifehack.

I wonder if some people are starting to over-think what it is. I got a kick out of Stowe Boyd's post on Twitter. Some interesting observations sure, but good greif, just make it useful for yourself.