Show HN: Pinned tweets (an idea)

by latitude • 14 years ago

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huhtenberg• 14 years ago

Nice idea, I can certainly see myself using this.

I would let followers disable/ignore pinning by specific posters, and notifying latter on how many ignore their pins. It's a gentler form of a negative feedback. Unfollowing seems to be a bit too drastic.

latitude4• 14 years ago

That's a sensible suggestion.

skbohra1233• 14 years ago

I talked about something similar, some time back. http://www.geekybuddha.org/blog/2011/07/16/sticky-tweets-mak...

Good to see someone thinking in that direction.

latitude4• 14 years ago

Similar, but different. Your idea appears to be in the works - https://twitter.com/#!/joeweston/status/201999848378089472

skbohra1233• 14 years ago

Awesome! Glad that I was thinking in the same direction. Now twitter, please hire me!

skbohra1233• 14 years ago

Your idea is similar to Facebook's highlight thing. http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/highlight-facebook-status-u...

BSeward• 14 years ago

These launched with Twitter's redesign last year. http://socialmediab2b.com/2011/12/b2b-twitter-brand-pages/

The "Promoted Tweet" pinned on top of brand pages is auto-expanded, so realistically most companies will probably be using it to showcase a video or graphic rather than trying to engage in 140. Oh well.

latitude4• 14 years ago

Well, no, these are different. They are pinned to the poster's page, not mine.

I am suggesting to let Dell throw a tweet at the top of my feed when I next refresh it (and then let it fall down as usual), but unlike existing promoted tweets do it only if I follow Dell.

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