Hi all,
I'm wondering if you have thought of addressing a use case that I've
run into and which I think is very important for twitter to support.
Problem:
* I want my bot to be able to send private messages to followers that
appear in their stream but without them getting an email or SMS every
time.
Use Cases:
1. For personalized recommenders, letting people subscribe to a stream
of their recommendations would be great.
2. The twitter equivalent of any private or obfuscated RSS feed.
Possible Solutions:
1. Have an "urgent" flag on DMs, set to true by default.
Setting it to false would skip the email/SMS step and just put it
in their stream.
2. Have an API for creating new accounts programmatically (or some
kind of sub-accounts).
Then I could create a new account with protected updates and only
let one user follow it.
3. Something custom?
Thanks,
Rowan
