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Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

whitneymcn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:59:27 -0000

Thanks! We'll be rolling out a few refinements and variations over the
next few weeks, I'm looking forward to see what shapes this sort of
thing can take...

Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

daryn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:05:57 -0000

Great stuff Whit!

(and Kevin too)

Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

whitneymcn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:06:05 -0000

Excellent, glad you like it!

Kevin and I have talked through a couple of possible extensions. The
idea that Charlie O'Donnell mentioned in the comment you were replying
to is the most obvious: we decided to go with a straight "most recent"
for replies initially, but having some slots set aside for "most
frequently replied to" is pretty straightforward and makes a lot of
sense.

You're dead on that it should be reasonable to allow person X to
create a list of the people that person Y is replying to, since the
tweetstream is public anyway. It's less efficient in theory than just
having person X create the list themselves, but people don't always do
what you want them to. :-)

Kevin actually built something that may fit what you want for the link-
focused tweets: http://timelylinks.com. Does some nice stuff like
calling out links that have been tweeted by more than one of the
people that you follow, too.

The more customizable stuff (views filtered by number of times
favorited, topics, what have you) I think is really interesting, but
I'm still wrapping my head around some of the simpler possibilities
right now. :-)

Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

joelaz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:29:27 -0000

Nice! I love the idea of dynamically generated lists. It would be cool if the tool weren't specific to @ replies, but was more general... sort of like Smart Playlists for iTunes, where you could specify what criteria defines the list (@ replies, favorites, posts containing links, etc). Here's a comment I made on Fred's blog a few weeks ago about the concept...

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/the-cohort-anal...

Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

whitneymcn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:14:23 -0000

No particular reasoning behind daily updates for the lists, just an arbitrary unit. In the grand scheme of things, I think you're right: the shorter the refresh interval, the better...we could start calling it "constant context" or something. :-)

It sounds like the idea started some wheels turning in your head, though, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

pootytang — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:37:25 -0000

Great idea. Why only daily though? Seem like you want the new users in your stream ASAP.

Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

whitneymcn — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:23:27 -0000

Okay, your occasional sobriety is officially on the record, as is yet
another "awesome work on the quick!" from me. :-)

Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

falicon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:36:12 -0000

Great explanation...oh and for the record, it was 5 days in New Orleans (Sat. - Wed.) and I was at least reasonably sober while watching the Falcons lose...the rest of the time I plead the 5th.

Re: Twitter Lists: Categories and Conversations

terrycojones — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:46:09 -0000

Better than being interesting in the wrong way :-)

Thanks for all the thoughts... all very interesting to me!