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Time to call Twitter toast?

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Twitter has been slow or non-functioning over the last week. Not good. And today, the “older” link, which enables you to scan tweets that you may have missed, is gone. Not good. Is this spelling the end of twitter? Could be.

Technorati went through something similar–until it got to the point that I started using other services. It wasn’t the simple fact that Technorati became unstable, it was that as they broadened their system their core got muddled. I wanted to search blogs. That’s the number one thing I wanted. It had to work well. The other stuff was stuff.

I think it must be something the Bay Area developers are drinking.

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Should twitter support multimedia data types

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

Dave Winer points to a twitter user that does not want more than text in their twitter experience.

The reasoning?

“Twitter is not email. This is the beauty of it. The need to sum up something in 140 characters or less is a strength, not a weakness. If you want to start attaching sound or pictures to it you break the beauty of it, the immediacy and the poetry.”

Similar arguments could be made of IM itself or IRC or any host of other, mainly text-based methods of conversing.

Of course the trick in any of these or other systems is to add functionality without disrupting the current text users. That makes complete sense.

However, let’s face it, twitter’s “poetry” is partial. When I look at a series of twitter posts I often see tinyurls sprinkled about. I ask why? Is this really the best way to do this? What are people doing? And Why? Would posters and readers benefit from a more efficient interface and format?

I’d point out to Kipple above, software, unlike poetry, does not have a final stanza. If it does, it’s value will fade not because it necessarily is in a bad spot or bad form, but because the rest of the world moves on.

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Extending Twitter data formats

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

TweetInInk.pngI’m with Dave Winer on this, I’d like to see more data formats “native” to Twitter too.

Pictures, audio, and video are my top three requests. As to whether these formats are not SMS friendly, all I can say is the world is migrating to richer data types already.

Of particular interest to me, if twitter supported pictures I could easily create an inkable front end to Twitter in which I could share graffiti messages with my friends. I’d love it. Currently the only way to do this–that I know of–is through MSN Messenger, however, inked drawing can’t be viewed on non-Windows platforms. This would be a way we could get around that limitation.

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