Richard

> Fair enough, and all true, but personally I see it as a bit of a forced
> combination; like receiving your shopping by catapult. I certainly
> wouldn't oppose the project, but I'd be inclined to include an email option.

I'd agree there.

>
> Yes, people are more than welcome to receive information by whatever
> means they feel appropriate, but I've so many weird twitter mashups
> recently I have to wonder if many things are being done because they're
> possible rather than because it's the most useful approach!

I'd suggest that that all serves a similar purpose to Steve Jobs and
Wozniak (forgot his name) writing games of Pong for the Apple 2 to
find what works and what was useful. That is Geeks at Play, and it
serves a useful purpose.

My favourite useless Twitter service is twicksize.com.

>
> The key problem of referring back to tweets is that 1) they're not the
> canonical source of the data, and 2) we have no idea of just how long
> old tweets will actually stick around. Certainly, most desktop clients
> (AFAIK) don't use an "inbox" which then keeps input around indefinitely.

That's a fair point. I think that if they don't stick around
permanently then Twitter will lose its market.

Matt

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>        Richard
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