Comments on: Twitter as a Community Tool http://www.chrisbrogan.com/twitter-as-a-community-tool/ Learn How Human Business Works - Beyond Social Media Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Guy P http://www.chrisbrogan.com/twitter-as-a-community-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-13954 Guy P Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:26:10 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/twitter-as-a-community-tool/#comment-13954 One of the problems with groups is that Twitter usage varies so widely by topic... you wouldn't want to receive all the messages from everybody on the MIT campus, for example. It would be cool if a "group" was like a special kind of user, so when you directly messaged them "d MITwitter worst spaghetti ever in cafe" it was automatically spat out of their Twitter feed. If Twitter could keep it trivial to start a group like "the five of us who are going for dinner tonight" then I would be all over that like *whoa.* One of the problems with groups is that Twitter usage varies so widely by topic… you wouldn’t want to receive all the messages from everybody on the MIT campus, for example. It would be cool if a “group” was like a special kind of user, so when you directly messaged them “d MITwitter worst spaghetti ever in cafe” it was automatically spat out of their Twitter feed.

If Twitter could keep it trivial to start a group like “the five of us who are going for dinner tonight” then I would be all over that like *whoa.*

]]> By: Guy P http://www.chrisbrogan.com/twitter-as-a-community-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-233902 Guy P Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:26:00 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/twitter-as-a-community-tool/#comment-233902 One of the problems with groups is that Twitter usage varies so widely by topic... you wouldn't want to receive all the messages from everybody on the MIT campus, for example. It would be cool if a "group" was like a special kind of user, so when you directly messaged them "d MITwitter worst spaghetti ever in cafe" it was automatically spat out of their Twitter feed. If Twitter could keep it trivial to start a group like "the five of us who are going for dinner tonight" then I would be all over that like *whoa.* One of the problems with groups is that Twitter usage varies so widely by topic… you wouldn’t want to receive all the messages from everybody on the MIT campus, for example. It would be cool if a “group” was like a special kind of user, so when you directly messaged them “d MITwitter worst spaghetti ever in cafe” it was automatically spat out of their Twitter feed.

If Twitter could keep it trivial to start a group like “the five of us who are going for dinner tonight” then I would be all over that like *whoa.*

]]> By: Justin Kownacki http://www.chrisbrogan.com/twitter-as-a-community-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-13455 Justin Kownacki Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:46:24 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/twitter-as-a-community-tool/#comment-13455 It's possible that groups are SO obviously a good idea, they simply held them back from the initial release, so they could drop them in "by popular demand" down the line... It’s possible that groups are SO obviously a good idea, they simply held them back from the initial release, so they could drop them in “by popular demand” down the line…

]]> By: Justin Kownacki http://www.chrisbrogan.com/twitter-as-a-community-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-233901 Justin Kownacki Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:46:00 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/twitter-as-a-community-tool/#comment-233901 It's possible that groups are SO obviously a good idea, they simply held them back from the initial release, so they could drop them in "by popular demand" down the line... It’s possible that groups are SO obviously a good idea, they simply held them back from the initial release, so they could drop them in “by popular demand” down the line…

]]> By: Jim Long http://www.chrisbrogan.com/twitter-as-a-community-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-13431 Jim Long Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:20:19 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/twitter-as-a-community-tool/#comment-13431 Twitter groups seems like a drop-dead simple idea. Which crossed my mind too. I'm sure it occured to the people who designed it and I'm surprised that it wasn't part of the original package. Twitter is cool, no doubt about it, as is your easy to digest breakdown of it's usefulness on Lifehack. I wonder if some people are starting to over-think what it is. I got a kick out of Stowe Boyd's <a href="http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2007/03/ross_mayfield_o.html" rel="nofollow">post on Twitter</a>. Some interesting observations sure, but good greif, just make it useful for yourself. Twitter groups seems like a drop-dead simple idea. Which crossed my mind too. I’m sure it occured to the people who designed it and I’m surprised that it wasn’t part of the original package. Twitter is cool, no doubt about it, as is your easy to digest breakdown of it’s usefulness on Lifehack.

I wonder if some people are starting to over-think what it is. I got a kick out of Stowe Boyd’s post on Twitter. Some interesting observations sure, but good greif, just make it useful for yourself.

]]> By: Jim Long http://www.chrisbrogan.com/twitter-as-a-community-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-233900 Jim Long Sun, 11 Mar 2007 18:20:00 +0000 http://grasshopperfactory.com/cbc/twitter-as-a-community-tool/#comment-233900 Twitter groups seems like a drop-dead simple idea. Which crossed my mind too. I'm sure it occured to the people who designed it and I'm surprised that it wasn't part of the original package. Twitter is cool, no doubt about it, as is your easy to digest breakdown of it's usefulness on Lifehack. I wonder if some people are starting to over-think what it is. I got a kick out of Stowe Boyd's <a href="http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2007/03/ross_mayfield_o.html" rel="nofollow">post on Twitter</a>. Some interesting observations sure, but good greif, just make it useful for yourself. Twitter groups seems like a drop-dead simple idea. Which crossed my mind too. I’m sure it occured to the people who designed it and I’m surprised that it wasn’t part of the original package. Twitter is cool, no doubt about it, as is your easy to digest breakdown of it’s usefulness on Lifehack.

I wonder if some people are starting to over-think what it is. I got a kick out of Stowe Boyd’s post on Twitter. Some interesting observations sure, but good greif, just make it useful for yourself.

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