I don't think favourites is fundamentally wrong, I just think it is under used and under developed. The star is next to the tweet, but people are open to use it how they want, much like many people use RT in many different ways and that isn't to say your usage is wrong. Usage is what makes twitter, and apparently usage is driving the design for RT's. If users are favoriting other users then it screams for some sort of group feature (like tweetdeck or Friendfeed etc) My thing about favorites is that they favorites aren't separately searchable, you can't publicly see who favorites a tweet, there is no simple stream of all favorites as they occur - the list goes on.
Paul 2009/8/17 Scott Haneda <talkli...@newgeo.com> > > On Aug 17, 2009, at 11:40 AM, "Brian Smith" <br...@briansmith.org> wrote: > > Paul Kinlan wrote: >> >>> Favorites are open to be read, it is just that not many >>> people use it and I can't actually find who favorited my >>> tweets - (probably no one in my case ;) - if I had that >>> information I could do a lot of things (with out >>> resorting to the RT stream). >>> >> >> I tried it and you are right, I can read anybody's favorites. But, is that >> intentional? I had always thought my favorites were private and I think that >> other users have that same expectation of privacy. >> >> - Brian >> > > Am I the only one who thinks favorites is fundamentally wrong? With so much > noise, is there any value in marking one tweet as the signal? > > I bastardize it and use it as a way to make a list of my favorite users. > This allows me to easily get to a small handful of users. I don't care what > their tweet was, I just need an easy way to get to them. > > This is what I suspect most average users use favorites for. Marking a > user. > > I asked a few friends just now and they all thought it was a favorite user > feature. One thought it was broken because he could mark the same user more > than once. > > -- > Scott > Iphone says hello. >
