My Three Ideas For Twitter
You all have heard me talk a lot about Twitter. Some people, aka Jackson, think I am slightly obsessed with the network and really don’t understand it’s purpose of it other than telling stalkers where you are at any given moment.
Anyways … I have been thinking about some things that I think Twitter should consider incorporating. The best way to get something out there is to write about it. So, I am going to share with you some of my ideas and I encourage you to post comments with your own ideas. Who knows, maybe Twitter will like one of them and get the process started!!
1. Option for all “@ replies” to be sent to you via sms whether following via mobile updates or not.
Example: Lets say I tweet something via sms …. Sammy who follows me reads my tweet and responds with an “@ reply”. If I don’t have Sammy set up as a mobile update then I won’t get her response until I either log in to my Twitter.com account or I open up my Twitter App on my phone and that just stinks! LOL
Resolution: Option for all “@ replies” to be sent to you via sms whether following via mobile updates or not. This means that even if I am not following Sammy via mobile updates I will still get her reply right away.
2. Ability to see who is following you just online or also via mobile updates.
Example: Jack is following me via mobile updates (meaning he gets every tweet I send out via sms). I would like to return the favor and follow him via mobile updates. (Produces quality convos).
Resolution: Just as Twitter has the “Mobile Updates” button next to each person you are following via your phone they could also add an icon showing you if that person is following you via mobile updates or just via Twitter.com.
Personally, Twitter is a Mobile Social Network so I think this would be a key idea!
3. Facebook connect just like Yahoo Mail.
Example: I have tons of friends on Facebook that I would love to connect with via Twitter however there is not integration between the two.
Resolution: Provide easy to use integration between Twitter and Facebook just like the integration between Twitter and Yahoo Mail.
Recently I tried importing all my Facebook friends into Yahoo mail from Yahoo’s website and then I went to Twitter and imported all my contacts from my Yahoo Mail to Twitter. It seemed to work HOWEVER … many of my friends and associates received way to many invites (like 7 per person). Craziness!! Would be so much easier to just incorporate and Twitter to Facebook connection.
These are just some of my ideas for Twitter to consider … please feel free to comment and add your own ideas. (Oh and then … don’t forget to Tweet it! You can use “http://twitlik.com/TwitIdeas” for a shorten url.)








I have trouble working out who is actually following me and knowing if they are seeing my @tweets to them.
Jen,
You can see who is following you by clicking on “Home” at the top of Twitter and then clicking on “Followers”. This will give you a list of all your followers.
If you include the “@” sign and their username in a tweet they should see it whenever they click on the replies section on their Twitter.
I hope this helps! If it doesn’t … let me know and I will send you an email with additional details.
It’s good to see an interesting post written about Twitter and social networking every once in a while. Nice one, ta for a great read!