How Twitter Could Win Local

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/22/7-ways-twitter-could-be-winning-local/

by iamvictorious • 15 years ago

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kml• 15 years ago

I agree, Twitter has all the right pieces to make something of local.

graiz• 15 years ago

Translation. Do what FourSquare should be doing, just don't suck at it.

dstein2• 15 years ago

Twitter's self imposed 140 char limit has limited their options in a lot of ways. Twitter should have dropped that a long time ago. Or at least not count hashtags, geotags, or urls against the 140 limit. This would've opened a lot doors to add more context to tweets.

_delirium• 15 years ago

Geotags that go via Twitter's geotag mechanism already don't count in the 140-char limit. (I mean the stuff that puts your tweet into results like https://twitter.com/#!/places/936b83f20956cd4c)

arctangent• 15 years ago

This didn't deserve to be downvoted. The first sentence (while perhaps obvious) is both true and relevant.

carbonica2• 15 years ago

It also bugs me that @refs count against the limit. When I come across 3 developers having a conversation and I'd like to chime in, I'm already down to <120 chars just by including their names. And since Twitter's model means they can't reasonably find out about my tweet if I don't put their name in it, the more people you want to talk with, the less you can say.

palish2• 15 years ago

You say that like it's a bad thing.

dstein2• 15 years ago

Yes exactly. In a more broad sense I think all nouns (people, places, urls), should not count against the limit.

tobylane• 15 years ago

The most important thing about local tweets is that you can refine search results to your country/area. I just tried, on the website and on the iphone app, I couldn't.

thwarted• 15 years ago

Refining search to your current location seems to work in the twitter android app. I just found out about some senior class trip and a guy looking for a beach with parking in South Lake Tahoe.

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