5 Areas that Twitter Still Needs to Improve On
As the Twitter service becomes increasingly popular, the more that I use it the more glaring it’s shortcomings are apparent. So I thought I would list a few of the frustrating errors and omissions that I’ve been noticing, and (hopefully) Twitter will consider adding them as features in the future.
1. Notify me when someone replies to my tweets. Unless I keep a Twitter tab open and refresh it often, or I install a third party bloatware app on my desktop there’s no way for me to know if someone has replied to my tweets. That’s annoying and it seems to me it would be easy for them make an option to notify me by email just like they do for direct messages.
2. A reference to the individual tweet that I’m replying to so the Twitter user knows which tweet I’m commenting on. It’s really annoying when you find an old reply to a tweet you missed (read #1 again) and so you reply back only to get another response that says “huh???“. They have no idea which tweet I was commenting on and neither can I remember. Now we’re all confused. Sigh!
3. A way to make twit groups. Don’t get me wrong because I like having lots of friends, but it would be nice to click a button and read only the twits related to my business interests. Then I could switch back to my best friends or to my fellow hobbyists or…
4. An option for filtering tweets. For the same reasons I said above, it would be nice to filter tweats for specific keywords related to what I’m interested in reading.
5. That the Twitter service will become more reliable. In light of all the recent outages I think most of us will agree on this one.
Have I missed anything? What’s on your Twitter wish list? Or do you hate Twitter and not even bother using it?
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All five points are valid.
I use Twhirl which actually got me hooked to twitter. If you have a slow computer you can use TwitterFox extension for firefox does a great job. No bloatware/adware on these applications !
The reply feature is almost there but is not as perfect as you want it to be. It definitely needs an improvement.
The last three reasons are probably why FriendFeed is getting popular.
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I’d like to extend your point 3 - “A way to make twit groups….it would be nice to click a button and read only the twits related to my business interests”
That’s for reading tweets. I’d like to be able to post tweets to different groups. I would like to separate my personal tweets from my work tweets and my political tweets. In other words I would like multiple accounts I can post to, and that contacts can subscribe to.
Don’t want much do you
After reading your wish list Paul and reviewing mine again I’m wondering if we are trying to extend Twitter beyond what it was originally designed for.
My reason for requesting groups is because I’ve had to shortlist those who I’m following simply because it’s not humanly possible to follow everyone once you get to a certain number of subscribers. I need a way to filter what I’m interested in reading and that’s not easy to do when you’re following hundreds of twits at the same time.
Some a-listers will try to get as many on-board as they can to service their fragile egos but the simple fact is Twitter was never intended to do what some are expecting from it. It’s no wonder Twitter is over-capacity and crashing these days.
Blog Bloke reply on June 4th, 2008 8:38 pm:
I haven’t used Twitter much at all, but have been meaning to greatly.
Now however I dunno…a bunch of what you put here would aggravate me greatly.
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I agree twitter needs a few more things then I wonder what that would do to it. more crashes?
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I haven’t really gotten into Twitter yet, and frankly, I don’t want to. I might check it out though, but right now I’m too busy.
Hi Dennis, Curtis and Tim. I’m basically using Twitter for new post notifications and blog site announcements.
Jun 13th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
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