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As this is my third Twitter post in a row, I'm beginning to feel like a one trick pony. Rest assured, as I've got a few Congressional (non-Twitter) ideas forthcoming.
The big problem facing Twitter summed in one word: noise.
- I want people to see my Tweet, but there are lots of Tweets in a day. So I post my content multiple times a day... Creating more noise. (I don't actually double-post.)
- The disposable nature of the service makes it rare that anyone will search past the last few days, or remember when and from who a particular link came.
- The open-ness of Twitter, how hard it is to effectively use the web version, and the many varied tools and ways people tweet make the experience different for everyone.
Favorites can bring order to the chaos. Make networking and searching much more viable. Make "ranking" a lot easier for all those sites devoted assigning us numbers. Eliminate the need for #followfriday.
Do you Favor every tweet that you find interesting, or every one you re-tweet? You should. In this way we'll build a more coherent, structured community. One that's not just based in "right now" and in other words, disposable.
Here's the syntax to start getting your and other users' Favorites feeds. I used Google Reader, but the concept is pretty general.
- Go into "add subscription."
- Enter twitter.com/someusername/favourites (note the british-style spelled favourites with the superficial U.)
- Hit "show details" (upper-right in Google Reader.)
- Now you'll see the direct RSS feed. mine is http:
/ , where 16504159 is my user number. Presumably I'm the 16,504,159th account to sign up. @Ev's number is 20. (Note that here, there is no superficial U; go America!)/twitter.com /favorites /16504159.rss