Comments on: Create Testimonials, Bookmarks & More with Twitter Favorites

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:01:54 +0000

I’ve been using Favourites extensively for most of the reasons you cite here. Thanks for the Yahoo Pipes info – very useful. Also to Greg re FAVRD – will check them out.
One of my biggest challenges now I have a lot of Tweets favourited is that TweetDeck only displays the last few weeks. Being able to export them all elsewhere will be very useful. Another challenge is re-finding specifric Favourites – need to categorise them in some way… any ideas ?

By: greg

greg — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:00:42 +0000

Sorry I haven't read ALL of the comments here but it was a great article nonetheless. Have you ever heard of FAVRD? Essentially it mines Twitter Favorites and puts them all in one handy site. I've been using this for about a week now and it's an interesting and diverse way to see the cream rising to the top of Twitter.

By: Salvatore Saieva

Salvatore Saieva — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:49:59 +0000

Thanks, you have some excellent points and idea about using Favorites. I started to think differently about my own use of Twitter Favorites when I realized that Favorites are public content; a visitor to your Twitter profile can view your Favorites without being logged into the Twitter service. So I think about saving tweets as Favorites that would be meaningful to a visitor. You can find an alternative viewpoint for using Twitter Favorites here:

http://saieva.wordpress.com/2009/02/22/the-most-overlooked-feature-of-twitter/

Regards,

Sal.
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Salvatore Saieva

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 15:31:54 +0000

thanks for the tips. I had never really thought of using favorites as a “testimonials” section as you mentioned. I think that could really be a great way to use it, especially for a more professional twitter account that you’re using to try and find a job.

Personally i currently use favorites as a way to mark links to read later, usually marked as favorites from my ipod touch, and to be read later on my home pc.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:32:31 +0000

Thanks for this post. I tweeted and blogged asking about the point of Twitter favourites a little while ago (bizarrely the day before you posted this). I love the favourite feature and use it all the time. I find it’s an very easy way of sharing content that I’ve read and liked using my iPhone.

I use favourites in a few different ways. I feed my own favourites in to my FriendFeed account and in to an RSS feed for my blog. I run this RSS feed via a Yahoo Pipe that badges the tweet as a Favourite and changes the linking if a single URL is quoted so that it goes straight to a link rather than linking to a status update (I’ve just updated the Yahoo pipe using some of what I saw in xverges pipe).

From a separate account I also follow customers and use favourites in a similar way to Radian6, except I favourite any post where the customer talks about us.

Thanks again for a great post, and some pointers on for some good people to follow.

By: Infinity Plus One

Infinity Plus One — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:46:49 +0000

Use this to grab my favorites and export them to HTML (or tab-delimited): http://twitter.infinityplusone.com/?app=searchfavorites

By: Cory O'Brien

Cory O'Brien — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:51:25 +0000

I use favorites as a way of marking tweets that I find funny or memorable, but I might have to examine some of the other uses after reading this article. I love the idea of subscribing to friends’ favorites as a way of cutting through the clutter, so I hope more people start to use the favorite functionality so that this becomes a much more useful way of finding interesting content on Twitter.

By: Allison

Allison — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:06:09 +0000

You know, I had never seen the value in favoriting, and after reading your article and seeing some good reasons for doing so, I still don’t see myself favoriting tweets. If I see a link I’m interested in, I click on it and save it to my bookmarks. I guess I see tweets as ephemeral because of the way I use Twitter. Just as I don’t write down comments people make to me in conversation, I don’t save Twitter comments. If they are interesting enough, I’m going to naturally remember them. I think the ability to save things adds to the clutter in our lives; email, voice mail, bookmarks- sometimes I feel overwhelmed. The only time I favorite a tweet is if I accidentally hit the “heart” button in Twhirl. (I wish I knew how to erase those!)

By: Jared O'Toole

Jared O'Toole — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:23:39 +0000

Twitter favorites is great even though I don’t use it.

Great idea for blog posts. At the end of each week round up all your favorites from the week and make a link post. Great way to show everyone what you tweet about.

By: Lionel

Lionel — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:14:59 +0000

An entire community of people starring other people’s humourous tweets blooms on Favrd. For them, this is a large part of their Twitter experience, tweeting witty bon mots and seeing whose tweets are getting the most stars. Some people even dedicate a separate account just for it. It’s quite fun to observe, if not participate.