Comments on: How Would You Improve Twitter? http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/ Twitter Tips in 140 Characters or More Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:03:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Colin Scattergood http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-25653 Colin Scattergood Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:00:59 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-25653 1.) Search on the home page 2.) Threaded Replies These 2 things alone would make Twitter exponentially better! (Better/more servers certainly wouldn't hurt either!) 1.) Search on the home page
2.) Threaded Replies

These 2 things alone would make Twitter exponentially better!

(Better/more servers certainly wouldn’t hurt either!)

]]> By: Using Twitter http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-3602 Using Twitter Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:06:50 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-3602 I would like to see Twitter have faster servers and more servers. The service needs to be speedy and reliable, and rid itself of all known bugs. I would like Twitter to make sure the service works the way it is supposed to without all the glitches. It's a popular service; make sure you have the server capacity to handle your user base. I would like a more useable search engine. Why can't I search for people who are interested in cats? or butterflies? Why can't I search for people who like a certain band, like the Bare Naked Ladies? Why can't I search for all people in city of ___ ? It is hard to connect with others on Twitter when the search is so limited. I would love to see Twitter incorporate transparent backgrounds as a design setting option, so that we can see through our text if we want to and see our background image. I do not want it to show when I am online or offline like AIM. I like my privacy. One thing I really dislike about StumbleUpon is you cannot even look at someone else's page without them knowing you arrived on their page as a "visitor." Please do not add that type of functionality to Twitter. I do not want to know every time someone looks at my page, nor do I want them knowing how much time I spend checking them out and reading their tweets, nor how much time I spend on Twitter. That is my business. I'd like DM left as it is, as far as if I do not follow you, you cannot DM me. This has to remain because there are too many spammers. It would be nice to be able to choose to view all @replies for some of those we follow and for others we follow to ignore all @replies. Since Twitter has trouble with the few features it currently offers (without producing Fail Whales and the service going down) that perhaps we should not ask for new features and merely ask that Twitter be able to maintain the service at an acceptable level. That seems challenging enough for the managers of Twitter. I would like to see Twitter have faster servers and more servers. The service needs to be speedy and reliable, and rid itself of all known bugs. I would like Twitter to make sure the service works the way it is supposed to without all the glitches. It’s a popular service; make sure you have the server capacity to handle your user base.

I would like a more useable search engine. Why can’t I search for people who are interested in cats? or butterflies? Why can’t I search for people who like a certain band, like the Bare Naked Ladies? Why can’t I search for all people in city of ___ ? It is hard to connect with others on Twitter when the search is so limited.

I would love to see Twitter incorporate transparent backgrounds as a design setting option, so that we can see through our text if we want to and see our background image.

I do not want it to show when I am online or offline like AIM. I like my privacy. One thing I really dislike about StumbleUpon is you cannot even look at someone else’s page without them knowing you arrived on their page as a “visitor.” Please do not add that type of functionality to Twitter. I do not want to know every time someone looks at my page, nor do I want them knowing how much time I spend checking them out and reading their tweets, nor how much time I spend on Twitter. That is my business.

I’d like DM left as it is, as far as if I do not follow you, you cannot DM me. This has to remain because there are too many spammers.

It would be nice to be able to choose to view all @replies for some of those we follow and for others we follow to ignore all @replies.

Since Twitter has trouble with the few features it currently offers (without producing Fail Whales and the service going down) that perhaps we should not ask for new features and merely ask that Twitter be able to maintain the service at an acceptable level. That seems challenging enough for the managers of Twitter.

]]> By: Infonote http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-1480 Infonote Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:10:08 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-1480 Ability for users to create groups. Ability for users to create groups.

]]> By: Peter http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-1423 Peter Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:59:23 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-1423 I'd love to see twitter make it easier (somehow) to follow conversations on the site. As it is now it can get quite confusing trying to figure out who's replying to who, and what is being said. I’d love to see twitter make it easier (somehow) to follow conversations on the site. As it is now it can get quite confusing trying to figure out who’s replying to who, and what is being said.

]]> By: Helen Lawrence http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-1222 Helen Lawrence Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:15:35 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-1222 I'd love to be able to bookmark tweets from within the mobile app versions of Twitter so that I could read them on my PC when I get back home or to work. It'd be great for links to long blog posts that I don't want to read on my phone, or for useful stats that people are tweeting that I want to save. I’d love to be able to bookmark tweets from within the mobile app versions of Twitter so that I could read them on my PC when I get back home or to work. It’d be great for links to long blog posts that I don’t want to read on my phone, or for useful stats that people are tweeting that I want to save.

]]> By: Vicki http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-1194 Vicki Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:26:45 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-1194 Luciano Passuello said: Threaded comments. I should be able to ‘@’ users, identifying which specific tweet I am referring to. This is available now, but broken. Sadly, that leads into my pet peeve about Twitter. It seems that existing features are disabled and not brought back and new features are put in place without adequate testing. How can you installa feature that explicitly adds "in_reply_to_status_id=1234567..." and have that feature Not Work? Luciano Passuello said: Threaded comments. I should be able to ‘@’ users, identifying which specific tweet I am referring to.

This is available now, but broken.

Sadly, that leads into my pet peeve about Twitter. It seems that existing features are disabled and not brought back and new features are put in place without adequate testing. How can you installa feature that explicitly adds “in_reply_to_status_id=1234567…” and have that feature Not Work?

]]> By: Peter http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-1186 Peter Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:28:06 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-1186 There has been some talk in the blogosphere about real-time Twitter micro novels, this approach would be interesting in particular genres such as Twitter crime micro-novel ... A vampire did it http://twitter.com/NYCrimeStories NYCrimeStories approach is informative (procedurally educational ) and the story interesting.... There has been some talk in the blogosphere about real-time Twitter micro novels, this approach would be interesting in particular genres such as Twitter crime micro-novel … A vampire did it

http://twitter.com/NYCrimeStories

NYCrimeStories approach is informative (procedurally educational ) and the story interesting….

]]> By: Laura Christianson http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-1110 Laura Christianson Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:12:53 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-1110 I suggest Twitter make it easier to create page backgrounds that look decent on a variety of monitor sizes. Most people's backgrounds (including ours) look absolutely terrible and tacky! Laura Christianson co-founder, HeBlogsSheBlogs.com https://twitter.com/HeBlogsSheBlogs I suggest Twitter make it easier to create page backgrounds that look decent on a variety of monitor sizes. Most people’s backgrounds (including ours) look absolutely terrible and tacky!

Laura Christianson
co-founder, HeBlogsSheBlogs.com
https://twitter.com/HeBlogsSheBlogs

]]> By: Jen @ JenuineJen http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-1101 Jen @ JenuineJen Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:24:06 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-1101 I love twitter 140 character limitations and all! Grouping followers/friends would be awesome. I would like to group my followers and be able to send messages just to a certain set of followers. For instance, during the election I would have liked to send certain detail-specific political messages to my "political junkie" followers but the rest of the followers probably could care less about these messages. I suppose I could setup additional accounts and just have those users follow that account but I would like to be able to do everything with one id rather than managing several accounts. Until I installed toro this past week, I would have said I want twitter to get rid of the API call limit (is that the correct terminology?). I really love that toro does not limit API calls so I receive all my tweets using this. I love twitter 140 character limitations and all!

Grouping followers/friends would be awesome. I would like to group my followers and be able to send messages just to a certain set of followers. For instance, during the election I would have liked to send certain detail-specific political messages to my “political junkie” followers but the rest of the followers probably could care less about these messages. I suppose I could setup additional accounts and just have those users follow that account but I would like to be able to do everything with one id rather than managing several accounts.

Until I installed toro this past week, I would have said I want twitter to get rid of the API call limit (is that the correct terminology?). I really love that toro does not limit API calls so I receive all my tweets using this.

]]> By: Toma Bonciu http://www.twitip.com/how-would-you-improve-twitter/#comment-1071 Toma Bonciu Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:32:59 +0000 http://www.twitip.com/?p=325#comment-1071 Having groups or topics and be able to check in what group a certain user is and to be able to search in specific groups. Having groups or topics and be able to check in what group a certain user is and to be able to search in specific groups.

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