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Twitter Question: Does anyone want a . . .

May 11, 2007

Before we just built it, I thought I would ask if anyone was interested in a service we are considering. Building on the idea of egorcast.com we came up with an idea that made our service easier to use as well as help people who forget to Tweet to Twitt.

The idea: What if you could set a preference to have Twitter (i.e. our mashup) call you once an hour, or every three hours or once a day. You could simply speak your Tweet and it would appear in Twitter within minutes.

The advantage: With egorcast.com you must signup for a Jott.com account and then remember to call Jott to Tweet (i.e. that is too much work for most people). Our new feature would remind you to Tweet and give you an easy way to do it.

Anyway, before we build it, please let us know if you think it would be useful! Also, if you any other cool ideas just let us know, we would love to build something better!

 

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7 Responses to “Twitter Question: Does anyone want a . . .”

  1. Marc Nathan Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    I think that this would be useful if you could manage the scheduling of the ping in a variety of ways - simple time based (every hour, three hours, once a day at a certain time) or condition based (time since your last twitter). One interesting aspect of this is the advertising model e.g. ‘[NIKE], [Ford], [BUDWEISER], [FXNETWORKS} reminds you it’s been 6 hours since your last Twit’

    Obviously you could also use the same engine to build a personal reminder/todo list notifier.

  2. Todd Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 3:21 pm

    I don’t need any prompting to “tweet”. Twitter’s very nature is unplanned, unprompted “blurbs”, having some server nag me would kill the spontaneity of it all. But I might use something a little different…

    I turn Twitter SMS messages on and off, depending on what I am doing, knowing that I can get caught up later, BUT sometimes I miss a direct Twitter message in doing so. These direct messages are important to me.

    If egorcast would immediately call my phone and let me know I have a direct message, even though I have twitter SMS turned off, that would be useful.

  3. Tom O'Leary Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 5:22 pm

    I think that it could be useful, although I would probably tire of being reminded at regular intervals to do something and might disable the service after a while. Maybe if it incorporated a snooze feature? Or, instead of prompting you, what if it instead posted something for you from a randomized list of entries that you create in your profile. Something like “I must be really busy because I don’t have time to tweet!”

    I think that this will be an issue though, as twitterers will most certainly fatigue after a while and many twitter accounts will be inactive after the novelty fades.

    By the way, if you want to ask this question in a poll widget, we have a free widget that you can put on your blog at http://www.polldaddy.com It’s a give-away and not ad supported. Feel free to grab it.

    All the best

    Tom

  4. Tom O'Leary Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

    Then again…perhaps the use of random canned bits as I suggested earlier would derogate the twitter environment. I suppose that it wouldn’t take long for someone to respond to a text message or a voice prompt. The value of twitter its ability to represent what people are actually doing at any given moment, so it should be kept as authentic and accurate as possible. Too many pre-recorded entries would certainly degrade the platforms value.

    Best regards

    Tom

  5. Marc Nathan Says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 9:00 pm

    Just catching up on my feeds a few hours after I posted the original comment and came across this post: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=4271

    The gist of it is Ping Me: http://gopingme.com/users/new

  6. Jason McMinn Says:
    May 14th, 2007 at 7:55 am

    Will someone please explain the facination of Twitter to me?

    I don’t want people to know what I am doing every hour of the day and I sure as hell could careless what they are doing. What am I missing here?

  7. Bri Says:
    September 18th, 2007 at 10:03 pm

    I think it would be useful, seeing as how i’m always one to forget to tweet until i get the text message to my phone.

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