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 > > Richard > > -- > Blog: http://phase.org > Twitter: @parsingphase > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
