I am one of those hardcore almost nerdcore users of the newish mobile and web messaging service called Twitter. I also have a few hundred friends and many many people following my Twitter page. This lends itself to being problematic from an ‘I want updates to my phone’ perspective as I would get ‘texted’ hundreds of times per day. I had to ultimately turn off the feature in favor of the web updates only (and then leaving the page open in my web browser and checking it often by clicking reload).
Since its launch I have noticed a few incremental updated, but the service (as much as I LOVE it) still has some latency issues and features are missing…
This is my public posting (and soon to be DIGGd) to Evan and Biz to please spend some time and add in these features… and please feel free to comment here as well on yours!
Twitter Top 5 Features
- Selective Updates: Twitter selective updates filtering (as in I want updates to my mobile from selected friends in my subscribers list)
- Mobile Direct Messaging: Twitter direct messaging from web to mobile or mobile to mobile (as in i want to be able to direct message someone from my mobile phone or have someone be able to direct message me to my mobile phone via the web interface or their mobile) without having to modify their gobal ‘broadcast’ settings
- Snap Shots: Twitter to use Snap Shots and our link preview technology on their tinyurl links (its hard to gauge weather the link is worth visiting especially when you cannot even tell the URL from the status bar)
- Click-to-Call: Twitter to use click to call functionality like Jajah for people to initiate phone calls from th web as well
- Twitter Message Info: Get more information on people twittering you like who’s sending updates from web or SMSing you.
