I was recently browsing Twitter and began thinking about the instant nature of everyone posting. As I have said before there are many conversations happening live on Twitter that may never get blogged. This got me started on this blog post about features that I wish existed. It is a culmination of my colleagues requests, other twitter users, and my own random filter on the whole topic. Feel free to follow my Twitter updates here.
1. Preview or Draft Function
I do not think that Twitter usability would be affected that much and give a feature that is found in just about every other messaging system. For the die hard twitter fans they could even put the button somewhere away from the typical “usage” area of creating your message.
2. Group messaging
It would be nice to be able to group or tag groups of friends (see below) and then send a message to all of them at the same time. Will this contribute to Twitter spam? Maybe, but it would be helpful.
3. Group labels or tagging
As more and more people join Twitter and more followers come about I find my twitter friends hard to sort through and organize. I think this would also help determine relationships between business and personal friends which are now on every social network – especially for those of us who work in the Social Media business.
4. Edit a Tweet (Thanks Brian)
5. Non-Linear Tweet-Reading
non-linear tweet-reading. maybe your tweets’ avatars in a grid with an expand/retract to see their tweets?
Thanks mktackabery via this Tweet
I know that simplicity has been key to the success of Twitter, and these functions would be in line with the original idea. There could still be the speed-text box that Twitter currently uses and a more advanced functions box. This would also mean that other software could add a new layer of detail and control to posts.
Wish there were other Twitter functions? Leave a comment or send a Tweet my way.
March 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Add this to the list…
Multiple delete for direct messages. Right now you have to delete them 1 at a time…
March 17th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Nice one. That would be a nice feature…
March 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Add this to the list…
Multiple delete for direct messages. Right now you have to delete them 1 at a time…
March 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Nice one. That would be a nice feature…
March 17th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
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March 17th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Twhirl is one of the best AIR programs I have seen. Not that there are that
many:) but it is definitely work a look and definitely worth it for Twitter
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March 17th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
hey check this is very interesting for twitters http://www.twhirl.org/
March 17th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Twhirl is one of the best AIR programs I have seen. Not that there are that
many:) but it is definitely work a look and definitely worth it for Twitter
power users.
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April 21st, 2008 at 11:37 am
I want to be able to sort people in the search function by how recently they have tweeted. Its crap that I have to look through pages and pages of people with a certain interest to find someone that has updated in the past month or so. I don't want to slog through all of the people that started an account a year or more ago, tweeted once (or never) and left the site. Its just stupid, and a basic function that is so glaringly missing. What is up with that? Am I just blind and don't see some button right in front of my face? If so, please tell me where it is.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:46 am
Hi Angela,
I feel your pain. I am not sure of such a feature, but I am sure your
comment is not alone. Hopefully this will get fixed soon. I know there are
multiple accounts that rarely get used and bog down the search system…
April 21st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I want to be able to sort people in the search function by how recently they have tweeted. Its crap that I have to look through pages and pages of people with a certain interest to find someone that has updated in the past month or so. I don't want to slog through all of the people that started an account a year or more ago, tweeted once (or never) and left the site. Its just stupid, and a basic function that is so glaringly missing. What is up with that? Am I just blind and don't see some button right in front of my face? If so, please tell me where it is.
April 21st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Hi Angela,
I feel your pain. I am not sure of such a feature, but I am sure your
comment is not alone. Hopefully this will get fixed soon. I know there are
multiple accounts that rarely get used and bog down the search system…
May 11th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Thanks for this post, it was very usefull to me.
We are currently working on a client for twitter, that would actually have the most features listed here. If you have some spare time please follow “TwittPulse” or drop me an e-mail to twittpulse (a) gmail.com so I can share some productions designs and see if we get everything right.
May 11th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Thanks for this post, it was very usefull to me.
We are currently working on a client for twitter, that would actually have the most features listed here. If you have some spare time please follow “TwittPulse” or drop me an e-mail to twittpulse (a) gmail.com so I can share some productions designs and see if we get everything right.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Thanks for the follow up. I would love to checkout the client when it goes
into beta. I appreciate that someone is rounding up all the “requests” for
Twitter and doing something about it. I would love to cover it here once it
is finished too.
May 11th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Thanks for the follow up. I would love to checkout the client when it goes
into beta. I appreciate that someone is rounding up all the “requests” for
Twitter and doing something about it. I would love to cover it here once it
is finished too.
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:20 pm
How about spell check, and alphabetical listing for your followers, so you can find one when you want to look them up to write to them!
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:53 pm
It would be very cool to have a ” special peeps” timeline other that just having replies and DMs. Now that I'm following so many peeps, I miss some of my favs until I go and look at their tweets page.
How about a ” sort/search” feature on your following and followers pages? By alpha-name as mentioned previously, by following back, by date started following, maybe even just a find by name search instead of going through all the pages by alpha.
Another idea is something I can use at work on a T-1 line but not at home on a DSL for some reason, when on T-1, I can look through my follows and it gives me an option to DM each person who is following me back. At home on DSL I have to go to that person's indiv. page to see if I can DM them.
One other oddity, what determines who shows up each time I go to my pull down menu in send DM area? It is only ever a partial list of who is following me back. Even peeps who I know are following me don't show up there. It's very random, but a fix for that would be awesome.
thanks for everything GREAT ab Twitter btw! LOVE IT!
http://twitter.com/AlissaFereday
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Your first point would definitely be great – Groups.
Follows with meta data would be great also – like I know I want to find
someone I followed 2 weeks ago.
Not sure why you can browse so much faster on your T-1 line – perhaps its
just a slowness issue.
I think the final point is just a matter of typing in someones name and they
will show up. It could be the last people you followed.
Thanks for making these suggestions!
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
That would be very helpful!
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
How about spell check, and alphabetical listing for your followers, so you can find one when you want to look them up to write to them!
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm
It would be very cool to have a ” special peeps” timeline other that just having replies and DMs. Now that I'm following so many peeps, I miss some of my favs until I go and look at their tweets page.
How about a ” sort/search” feature on your following and followers pages? By alpha-name as mentioned previously, by following back, by date started following, maybe even just a find by name search instead of going through all the pages by alpha.
Another idea is something I can use at work on a T-1 line but not at home on a DSL for some reason, when on T-1, I can look through my follows and it gives me an option to DM each person who is following me back. At home on DSL I have to go to that person's indiv. page to see if I can DM them.
One other oddity, what determines who shows up each time I go to my pull down menu in send DM area? It is only ever a partial list of who is following me back. Even peeps who I know are following me don't show up there. It's very random, but a fix for that would be awesome.
thanks for everything GREAT ab Twitter btw! LOVE IT!
http://twitter.com/AlissaFereday
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Your first point would definitely be great – Groups.
Follows with meta data would be great also – like I know I want to find
someone I followed 2 weeks ago.
Not sure why you can browse so much faster on your T-1 line – perhaps its
just a slowness issue.
I think the final point is just a matter of typing in someones name and they
will show up. It could be the last people you followed.
Thanks for making these suggestions!
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:01 pm
That would be very helpful!
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