Twitter's favourite stream us not bring used because it doesn't add any extra value to your followers at the moment. They have to go to the web site and explicitly click favourites to see them. In my opinion, this is why RT is being used so heavily, it is the only way for you to tell your followers "Hey' read this".
What I imagine in ESME is a favourite stream which would work like "Friends' shared items" in Google reader. If we had this we could even make a company-wide techmeme like stream, where we show for instance the 10 most read links at any given moment. /Anne On 21/04/2009, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> wrote: >> I still think having a separate feed is a cool idea.. >> It allows you to follow what your following likes and it would free up the >> timeline for some of the RTs. (the RTs are essentially only a >> liking/favourting the tweet) > > Twitter does have a favorites stream for a very long time (year and a > half?), it's just not being used very much by Twitter clients > (actually, I haven't seen even one to use it). > > Alternatives in ESME: > - automatically resending messages based on certain criteria (action > filters) > - replying to a message where you can add content is automatically > seen by all of your followers. I actually find this a bit clearer, as > I usually want to add something, but there's just no room in Twitter. > As I see it, this is exactly the point of the "via" keyword, but you > lose the quick link to the context. > > If favorites are a good idea, then they could definitely be improved > from what's in Twitter. I for one don't like much multiple stacked > RT... RT... RT... > > Let's see what we want and what we have in ESME... Maybe the wording > of what's already there does not convey the right message (pun not > intended)? > -- This message is: private and confidential [ ] bloggable with prior permisssion [ ] bloggable without permission [ ] Anne Kathrine Petteroe m: + 47 41420865 skype: akpetteroe twitter: yojibee
