Steve Garfield Invents Twittermail
Twitter is down. Poor Twitter is going through growing pains like there’s no tomorrow. So, in a quick email I dropped to Steve Garfield, he replied, “Twitter’s down, so you’re using email?” And the idea was born.
Just for giggles, I emailed about seven or eight Twitter users with a Twitter-like update.
Where there’s a geek, there’s a way.
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For me it raises a question and thought flow, just as CSS helped us separate content and form in terms of web pages, maybe we need to think about ways of separating the content and form of messages. I should be able to choose how various messages types are routed to me and to what device, with some smart agent helping the process, but that would require that we are able to tag our outbound messages with a “type” like (email | document | IM | Tweet | whatever) something that captures the type and nature of the communication morsel.
Nice idea, isn’t it? We’ve been sending tweet-like messages in the day-job office this way for ages. Who has time to open mail?
-L.
trust me- short is good, esp after spendng a day texting from the older than dirt cell phon ein a car on the GA highways….
So: I’m a follower. Here goes some Temails.