Are you on twitter?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134808

by ivankirigin • 18 years ago

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I'm starting to love using Twitter. There is something liberating about the constraints.

I'm @tipjoy

http://twitter.com/tipjoy

bootload2• 18 years ago

"... I'm starting to love using Twitter. There is something liberating about the constraints ..."

I've used twitter from Nov2006. Some of the constraints I don't like:

- how they handle urls [0]

- how they handle people who you like but talk to much [1]

The rest is pretty good. Not too much info, uptime ok (well when I use it) and api is simple & works ~ http://twitter.com/bootload

[0] I don't know a good solution but if google created their own shortcuts like tinyurl the web would be a better place.

[1] stacks of quick posts one after the other why not group them by person after a threshold of say 3?

dcurtis2• 18 years ago

I can see the reason for footnotes on a long post for meta information, but why do you use them in your little messages? Why not just explain what's in the footnote when you first mention it?

Not an attack, just a friendly question. I've noticed you do this fairly often.

I agree with [1] though; Robert Scoble is the worst offender, seconded closely by Guy Kawasaki. Bundling messages together would screw up the API and break things like twitterific, probably. I wonder if there's a better solution.

bootload2• 18 years ago

"... Why not just explain what's in the footnote when you first mention it? ..."

good point, I'll see what I can do.

"... I wonder if there's a better solution. ..."

friendfeed does the obvious thing that is it restricts view to the latest 3 by person so as to not clutter the page. Another idea I can think of would be allow you to select who you want to clamp.

"... Not an attack, just a friendly question. I've noticed you do this fairly often. ..."

to stop adding ellipses (that mess up the text especially if there is a lot of them) allowing you to read. This is especially for links or side notes that relate to the main text but is added interest. Also I use hackernews as a scribble ( http://flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157600280904949/ ) for later posts on flickr

"... Bundling messages together would screw up the API and break things like twitterific ..."

No just the display, not the data itself. Just grab the latest submission. If more submissions occur in "N" minutes time frame just display the latest 3, have a click & fetch more if required. It shouldn't break app using the api doing this. Friendfeed does this well.

ivankirigin3• 18 years ago

I agree.

They should get the shortest domain names possible. For tiny utls. For the web view. they should just have a single character as a link, like a #.

iv.an is available for 450 euro! Is u.rl available?

I'd like parallel streams, with people that update too much pushed to the sidelines.

nikete• 18 years ago

You can just implement a client that does that. No need to wish, there's an api, it's use is encouraged, go hack! http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/...

danw2• 18 years ago

Jaiku had [1] sorted. Replies would be displayed as a thread of comments under the original message.

Pownce has a good approach to [0] with its enclosures/attachements which can be files, events, etc as well as links.

jraines• 18 years ago

Peronally I've gotten a lot more utility out of Friendfeed so far.

Twitter is neat though -- I'm building a site that will scrape replies to a Twitter user called @rating and put them in a database of ratings. The reply just has to look like this:

@rating 5 "Thing Being Rated" Mini-review goes here.

I'll post it when the battle of Rails deployment is over.

I'm 'jraines' on Twitter and Friendfeed.

avinashv2• 18 years ago

I'm @avinashv. Most of my friends tend to use more traditional IM or vanilla email, so I don't use the thing at all.

earle• 18 years ago

im obviously partial to http://www.groovr.com but i generally prefer sending and receiving photos, especially form mobile.

other then that, i still use twitter from time to time.

cyberhill• 18 years ago

I'm @rosshill

http://twitter.com/rosshill

samwise• 18 years ago

I don't get it. There is no real need for it. I also don't see how you could easily monetize it.

ryanspahn• 18 years ago

It's description and the inane posts I originally read made me think the same thing!

But, after much use it's a great piece of technology. It allows you to survey a crowd, use it for emergency purposes (San Diego Fire Dept did just this), learn about what your friends are reading/sharing, where they are going for the evening, how they feel, etc...

npost• 18 years ago

It gets interesting when they start offering commercial services around it. What a great platform for project teams, or even disaster notifications (civil services), etc. It would be great for emergency services to coordinate their activities. However, that is assuming that it can handle the volume without going down!

http://twitter.com/npost

pkaler• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/pkaler

But I use Jaiku a whole lot more. Seems to be more of a Vancouver area tech phenomena though. http://pkaler.jaiku.com

webwright• 18 years ago

I'm digging Twitter too. Here's me: http://twitter.com/webwright

If you care about marketing, learn to use Twitter Track (google it).

I get an SMS every time ANYONE mentions RescueTime on Twitter (friend or no). It's slightly creepy when I immedietely pounce on them and thank them. ;-)

a-priori• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/codergnome

I don't update a whole lot.

walesmd• 18 years ago

I only use Twitter to integrate with beanstalkapps.com - this way my clients can see my SVN commits in real-time (since I'm cheap and don't pay for them to have an account to the beanstalkapps.com backend).

dcurtis2• 18 years ago

Yeah, @dcurtis. Recently, I've become addicted.

danielha• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/danielha

holler @ me.

Also subscribe to the RSS of your company name (or keyword of choice) at http://terraminds.com/twitter. My favorite Kirigins have Tipjoy on that badboy.

ivankirigin3• 18 years ago

Hell yah. Terraminds twitter search is actually pretty useful. Searching for your company name is particularly valuable. Go tip 'em.

joshwa2• 18 years ago

Astounding that that's not an actual twitter feature.

danw2• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/iamdanw

Who's on tumblr? I'm http://tumblr.iamdanw.com on there

iseff• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/iseff

And, on tumblr, http://featureorbug.com (recently became a Tumblr staff pick!).

blinks• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/hackerblinks

Tumblr: http://adam.blinkinblogs.net/

(And, on Pownce: http://pownce.com/hackerblinks/)

(Does this mean I win teh Internets? I have social networking fever. (And the only cure is more cowbell.))

(Need caffeine.)

avinashv2• 18 years ago

twitter @avinashv http://avinashv.tumblr.com is Tumblr

hassy• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/hasanv

Started using it recently, still haven't worked out what it's really about.

timothyandrew• 18 years ago

twitter.com/timothyandrew

Twitter is amazing.

nkohari• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/nkohari

stejules• 18 years ago

Hello I am @stejules and wanna have more friends!

hooande• 18 years ago

Twitter has been great for our startup. It's true what they say, news travels fast on there. I'm here:

http://twitter.com/hooande

darreld• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/darreld

Love it.

lbrdn• 18 years ago

It's an amazingly fast way to spread info.I'd recommend it to all you start-up guys if you're not on it already. I'm twitter.com/lukebrdn

statikpulse• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/yansarazin

Just started using it more often.

abarrera• 18 years ago

Wow a lot of twitter guys here. I wished you could a) Import an opml file with Twitter accounts. b) Create groups of Twitter friends you can message like @group1

If someone knows of any webapp that implements a) please let me know :D

And I'll add mine: http://twitter.com/abarrera

mosburger• 18 years ago

Chris Brogan tried the group idea with "Twitter Packs"... he implemented it quickly and dirtily using a Wiki though, so editing it runs into some obvious pitfalls (e.g., contention when a page is edited by more than one person)...

http://twitterpacks.pbwiki.com/

I toyed with the idea of implementing it as an actual standalone service without the wiki... but I have too many other "side projects" right now! :)

Here's my twitter account: http://twitter.com/mdesjardins

jeffisageek• 18 years ago

I am on twitter. feel free to add me http://twitter.com/jeffisageek

jfoutz• 18 years ago

@jfoutz http://twitter.com/jfoutz

just started using it last week.

PStamatiou• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/Stammy

engtech2• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/engtech -- bitching and moaning

http://twitter.com/et -- link dump

engtech2• 18 years ago

For tumblr I am

http://engtech.tumblr.com -- lifestream, kinda messy

http://rubeh.tumblr.com -- ruby/rails links

joshwa2• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/joshwa

Though I think that their potential as messaging glue has yet to be realized-- payloads would be a start, as Winer has suggested, incorporating Yahoo Pipes, Twitterfeed, etc, and make twitter the social messaging bus for the entire web.

My hypothesis is that Obvious is working on this stuff (since it's so, well, ovbious!), but isn't ready to release it until they get their infrastructure stuff sorted out, sign up partners, etc.

glasner• 18 years ago

http://twitter.com/glasner

orion• 18 years ago

Twitter is pretty darn cool, especially if you use it to keep friends and collealleagues up to date with what's going on in your world. It cracks me up to hear people ask "how can I monetize this?" If you have something of value to offer it will monetize itself. Nobody truly enjoys being "sold." If nothing you do is of any value, attempts to monetize are just wasted effort.

Mistone• 18 years ago

I'm @mistone

http://twitter.com/mistone

no massive posting activity but not stale

izak30• 18 years ago

http://www.twitter.com/issackelly and http://twitter.com/servee

brk• 18 years ago

I'm NotoriousBRK ...

astrec• 18 years ago

@cammacrae

http://twitter.com/cammacrae

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