http://wefollow.com/ is an example of mass numbers of twitter users classifying themselves.
Yes the data is not as deep as if twitter itself provided the classification but it helps keept twitter.com clean and simple. I don't think this adds as much value you think it will but I could be proven wrong. End result though is this is not a feature that the API team is going to implement unless twitter itself adds the feature. You should make your suggestion to http://help.twitter.com On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:15, MPS <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > -- 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. Sent from San Francisco, California, United States
