Sure, someone could develop a service for classifying twitter accounts, but that's less than ideal for a number of reasons:
- introduces yet another 3rd party service that developers have to deal with - multiple account classification systems would result in less meaningful data - Twitter is the only company in a position to enable users to classify themselves - they could just make this a required dropdown in their signup form. I really think it would be enough just to have a flag that marks accounts as "Personal". Marking an account as Personal that is in fact used primarily for commercial purposes or driven by a bot could be considered a violation of Twitter's TOS. This would add huge value to users & developers. I hope someone @ Twitter is listening! On May 27, 11:34 am, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Need to classify a twitter account? There's an app for that! ...maybe > -Chad > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Abraham Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds like a third party app to me. > > > 2009/5/27 Adam Covati <[email protected]> > > >> Hmm, could definitely be of some use. Of course, with no policing it > >> would not be entirely reliable, but I guess it could help in a number > >> of different ways. The difficult part is classifying things, I would > >> probably want a few more types > > >> 1. Personal - your standard user on twitter > >> 2. Business - similar to personal, but represents a company > >> 3. FeedBot - auto tweets from rss feed > >> 4. Bot - auto tweets based off of some other sort of information > >> stream > >> 5. I'm sure there are more... > > >> On May 27, 10:17 am, MPS <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I would like to propose an additional property on twitter accounts: > >> > account_type. > > >> > The main purpose for this would be to distinguish personal vs. > >> > business accounts. > > >> > This would be very useful for apps that want to target one or the > >> > other type of twitter account. > > >> > Who's with me on this? :-) > > >> > - Michael > > > -- > > Abraham Williams |http://the.hackerconundrum.com > > Hacker |http://abrah.am|http://twitter.com/abraham > > Project |http://fireeagle.labs.poseurtech.com > > This email is: [ ] blogable [x] ask first [ ] private.
