Saturday, July 18, 2009

What Twitter needs

The internet is nothing if not a venue for complaint, so I will go ahead and do just that regarding Twitter:

There is no accounting for the frequency of tweets from people you follow. So you get a problem where frequent tweeters drown out the not-as-frequent tweeters, and you end up having to take into account tweet-frequency when you're deciding whether to follow someone. Which seems wrong.

What would be nice is if you had not one stream but two or more, where the frequency of tweets determines which stream you fall into (the high-frequency stream or a lower-frequency stream). That way you wouldn't get the drown-out problem.

Of course, I understand that Twitter is totally open so all it would take to implement this is for someone to make a website that does it. So I guess I'm saying: make it???

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