Twitter and the impact on Bloggers

jason law — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:03:16 +0000

I’ve noticed that no matter how much I want to create long and insightful posts that most of what I want to say can be summed up in a few sentences. With the use of Twitter I can create a quick “tweet” of what I am thinking at that moment. Now there are a few things I wish twitter could do. The first is categorizing or tagging tweets. Lets say I want to display all of my tweets about winter, a simple call to the Twitter API asking for tags related to “winter” would be awesome. Maybe implement tagging similar how you reply to someone ($winter:Winter is Cold). This could even possibly allow for multiple tags ($winter,$michigan,$snow:This winter in michigan there has been some snow). Another cool feature would be polling. So I could ask my followers a question like this: “poll(superbowl:yes,no):Will the patriots win the superbowl?” Users would then reply “@jaylaw81:poll(superbowl: yes)”. Now these are advanced type features that would extend the current Twitter system, not something for the casual user.

Simplicity is wonderful

jason law — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:01:21 +0000

When you have the ability to do alot usually it ends up with you doing nothing. So in the spirit of simplicity I’ve reduced the design to what a blog is, about the posts. The only special thing you get extra are my twitter tweets on the sidebar, which I update more often than anything else.

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Twitter and the impact on Bloggers

Simplicity is wonderful