Comments on: 5 Things: My Notes on the Twitter Roadmap

By: Joining the Social Media Revolution - The Causemopolitan

Joining the Social Media Revolution - The Causemopolitan — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:33:04 +0000

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By: Sloane Berrent

Sloane Berrent — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:10:46 +0000

Dave and Jeff. I know, it’s amazing. If I only knew I could ask for things and it was that simple that Twitter could make these changes in mere days!

I’m glad to see their finger on the pulse, that’s a good sign for a company.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:23:35 +0000

Im sure they were able to turn around those changes in 3 days on Twitter because of these recommendations..

By: David J. Whelan

David J. Whelan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:27:39 +0000

Nice work, Sloane! When I saw Twitter’s Following and Followers Page Improvements last evening, all I could think about was your blog post. Now let’s see how quickly they (or someone) works through the rest of your list!

By: David J. Whelan

David J. Whelan — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:18:48 +0000

Great post, Sloane! I think a lot of us share these general ideas. From a feature standpoint, everything you bring up could be extremely valuable, and some of them are downright essential as Twitter (and we) grow up. Unfollowing, for instance.

Where we might disagree a bit is on who should own these improvements. I would love to see Twitter make some of these changes. But I think I would prefer to see more of them come in the form of add-ons and plug-ins. The Twitter API seems to be fairly powerful and open (to a computer science drop-out like me), but I would challenge Twitter to make it more open and then challenge its partners to push the boundaries of functionality. Maybe Twitter needs a better developer relations strategy. Where’s Dave McClure when you need him?

What would I really like to see? A unified messaging client (on the Mac, natch) that can deal with POP, IMAP, Exchange, Google, IM, Twitter, and Facebook. The last one might be impossible, but Twitter certainly isn’t. Imagine being able to download all of yesterday’s tweets, read and compose replies while tricycling between villages, and then send them when you get online again. Imagine being able to answer the question, “Was it an email, AIM, or tweet that I sent to Dave? I know I responded, but I can’t remember where….” This is more than just downloading as a backup, it is synchronizing to integrate Twitter into one’s personal workflow.

And while we’re at it, it would be great to be able to see who we follow and who follows us without resorting to jumping through hoops. That seems pretty basic. Like unfollowing….