Twitter Tools - real and not yet real
I thought I’d list a few more services I imagine I’d love to use with the ginormous sensation that is twitter. I’ve already gone on about the location based idea that is sort of a twitter craigslist with users being able to create threads for their favorite hangouts or where ever people congregate and are connected (cafes, malls, schools, stadiums, airports, etc.). A potential revenue coming from charging private companies like stadium owners for more admin features for message control or design. Hard saying though, as it is all total theory.
I think the most obvious next step is to allow anyone to create sites like StockTwits.com based on whatever theme or topics the community may be interested in. Give me the Wordpress.com version and or the Wordpress.org version where a community can grow and add to the software.
A new twitter search cool Twazzup has added some handy features that basically puts to use “trends” within each search which is quite handy. This search of Berkeley breaks it down and shows 8 trends within that specific search. For filtering real news or the topics you are actually interested in this extra data is very significant.
One of the features that I think has been left out of a lot of these that is terribly surprising to me is the full screen display. I’m pretty sure this is where we headed. I expect to see more live threads displayed in public. Here is the BrightKite “Wall” for Berkeley posts from twitter.
I think that if someone can filter worthy twitter news posts based on location [craigslist] they’ll become one of the main distributers news. Add a clean wall type display and you’ll see these threads being displayed in all sorts of public places putting the streams to use in the physical world. The difficulty is creating community tools to filter out important or worthy user updates that qualify as or are interesting enough to be news. So how to moderate and filter real time posts, but keep them real time. Seems like a challenge. Can we filter on user authority or karma (maybe), community tags or votes (unlikely & slow), premium or otherwise trusted users (I have no idea)?
Anyway, those are my thoughts for now.
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Twitter Tools - real and not yet real
I thought I’d list a few more services I imagine I’d love to use with the ginormous sensation that is twitter. I’ve already gone on about the location based idea that is sort of a twitter craigslist with users being able to create threads for their favorite hangouts or where ever people congregate and are connected (cafes, malls, schools, stadiums, airports, etc.). A potential revenue coming from charging private companies like stadium owners for more admin features for message control or design. Hard saying though, as it is all total theory.
I think the most obvious next step is to allow anyone to create sites like StockTwits.com based on whatever theme or topics the community may be interested in. Give me the Wordpress.com version and or the Wordpress.org version where a community can grow and add to the software.
A new twitter search cool Twazzup has added some handy features that basically puts to use “trends” within each search which is quite handy. This search of Berkeley breaks it down and shows 8 trends within that specific search. For filtering real news or the topics you are actually interested in this extra data is very significant.
One of the features that I think has been left out of a lot of these that is terribly surprising to me is the full screen display. I’m pretty sure this is where we headed. I expect to see more live threads displayed in public. Here is the BrightKite “Wall” for Berkeley posts from twitter.
I think that if someone can filter worthy twitter news posts based on location [craigslist] they’ll become one of the main distributers news. Add a clean wall type display and you’ll see these threads being displayed in all sorts of public places putting the streams to use in the physical world. The difficulty is creating community tools to filter out important or worthy user updates that qualify as or are interesting enough to be news. So how to moderate and filter real time posts, but keep them real time. Seems like a challenge. Can we filter on user authority or karma (maybe), community tags or votes (unlikely & slow), premium or otherwise trusted users (I have no idea)?
Anyway, those are my thoughts for now.
