Comments on: Follow Friday: iPhone Twitter Lists and “New Style” Retweets Edition

By: dc

dc — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:33:44 +0000

I understand (I think) and like the concept of lists (kind of like RSS folders), but like a poster above said, I only read tweets on my iPhone, so until Twitterific adds folder support it really does me no good.

By: Elric

Elric — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:49:25 +0000

Let us tweet with Echophon HERE!

By: icebike

icebike — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:24:24 +0000

@Fastlane:

So why would I want to follow it on Twitter and have my screen filled with 30 TiPb feeds, as well as 30 Macword posts, 30 Engadget posts, etc., etc, only to leave me struggling to find what my real friends have said?

The problem is actually worse than that.

Its not just that some blogs are slipping off the net into twitterland, but also twitter is now becoming the ONLY source of research for many blogs I follow.

There are some sites that have huge raging twitter floods about issues they no longer bother to post to the blog, and you only find out about them tangentially.

There are some computer hardware, investing, and automotive blogs that ONLY sift twitter feeds for stories. They miss more than half the real news about their focus area because they watch such a filtered subset of one-liners that they complete lose touch with their industry, ignoring press releases, direct emails, and breaking news items.

Maybe the re-tweets will help in this regard, but I doubt it.

By: Braden

Braden — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:34:24 +0000

Or you could just use TweetDeck as I have for the past several months and get the same thing.

By: fastlane

fastlane — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:45:18 +0000

Sorry, I just don’t get following blogs on Twitter (or using Twitter at all).

The biggest mystery to me is why anyone would want to follow hundreds of people who post dozens of tweets and/or feeds per day (or per hour). I check this site every day. So why would I want to follow it on Twitter and have my screen filled with 30 TiPb feeds, as well as 30 Macword posts, 30 Engadget posts, etc., etc, only to leave me struggling to find what my real friends have said? Not to mention (what iphone4idiots said) about seeing dozens of partial conversation bits that make no sense to me because they’re in response to someone else.

By: Libbey

Libbey — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:51 +0000

The evangelists are hyping the beauty of Twitter lists. But tell ya what, until I can readily utilize them via mobile formats (c’mon Tweetie 2.1) – their goodness eludes me until I’m working from an immobile setup… Which NEVER (ok, rarely) happens… Am sure it takes time. The beauty of Twitter itself has been it’s immediacy, so the process of getting apps up to speed isn’t really terribly drawn out, it just feels that way.

Then again, it’s always easier to criticize that to create.

By: iphone4idiots

iphone4idiots — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:31:24 +0000

Twitter has to keep trying new things to improve. I love Twitter, but it could be so much more. Right now its very difficult to follow a conversation between two other people. Say Rene is dropping some knowledge back and forth with someone on a subject you are interested in. How can you easily view this conversation?? As time goes on, Twitter will get better and more focused. Despite all the spam