Comments on: Twitter Question: Does anyone want a . . .

By: Bri

Bri — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:03:44 +0000

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.

By: Jason McMinn

Jason McMinn — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:55:21 +0000

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?

By: Marc Nathan

Marc Nathan — Sat, 12 May 2007 02:00:44 +0000

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

By: Tom O'Leary

Tom O'Leary — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:48:40 +0000

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

By: Tom O'Leary

Tom O'Leary — Fri, 11 May 2007 22:22:30 +0000

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.

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All the best

Tom

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:21:52 +0000

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.

By: Marc Nathan

Marc Nathan — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:01:05 +0000

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.