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Twitter Lists: Defeat from the Beak of Victory

I wanted Twitter lists about five seconds after I clicked my second “follow”. My life is about categories and contexts: I follow people for different reasons, and I want to group those people and their tweets around similarities. Search and hash tags helped a little, but full-text search and uncontrolled tag vocabularies come with a host [...]

Posted 20 October 2009 † john.kominetz § Articles § Journal ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Twitter Misses the Mark with Mentions

When Twitter changed their reply functionality, now called mentions, my initial reaction was unmentionable.  After a few weeks to ponder and play with it, I still think they made a big mistake.  A reply was originally a message that began with a twitter username, like this:
@zorak No, really?
Replies were public, but Twitter added a link [...]

Posted 19 April 2009 † john.kominetz § Articles ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,