I agree Jeff that "chat" is not the real purpose of Twitter. hard to let "comments" go unanswered. Like I proposed, I think a way to post ideas from Twitter have them populate the primary list would be interesting.
But where the twitter feed can be useful is for events and other types of "1 offs". Where it gets weird is when a simple "1 off" becomes a conversation starter. it is a very unmoderated space and thus it will be hard to prevent people from "chatting". Re: your 5min. thing. that is extreme. You can reduce that a lot. You get 70 refreshes in total from Twitter. Where it becomes a lot is that twitteriffic and others are concatenating several different gets into 1, so they are doing sometimes 3X's the refreshes than you think they are doing: home directs replies for example. But Twhirl (available on mac) allows you to set different refresh rates for each call to twitter. E.g. by not getting Direct messages in twitteriffice, or your client and only via email you will get the message but not impact your refreshes. As for the more than 1 client thing. Embedding in firefox is not helping. It is another client, just in a different platform. I am using twitter already, ergo, if I have to monitor and respond some place else, it is another client. I think the two mediums are just different in purpose, but neither pre-disposes the other. I just have REALLY bad memories of IRC chat from 12 years ago and I am afraid of flashbacks. Seriouslly, it wasn't pretty. that's why I suggested Campfire, or I'll suggest now maybe a meebo chat room (Ok, I'm a basecamp and meebo user, so I have those apps open already anyway.) I'm still on twitter w/ the rest of the 80 of you. :) -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28908 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
