Twitter Packs- a Way to Share Interests

January 28, 2008 · Comments

Twitter is quite a strange beast to understand, but it’s easier if you follow a few people who immediately make sense to you, insofar as your shared interests or geography. To that end, I started a project this morning and immediately turned it over to the universe to build and maintain, called Twitter Packs.

The premise is simple: list areas of interest or locales, and self-select people you know who would be (in your estimation) someone others might follow.

So what do you think? Who or what can you add to Twitter Packs?

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  • What a wonderful idea, Chris. Thank you for putting this together. I'm trying to get into the wiki now to add my Twitter name under Social Media. :)

    Shana Albert
  • Great idea. Makes me wonder why someone hasn't done it in the past. It's so simple it's brilliant!
  • Wendy
    Need an invite key. Won't let me add anything without it.
  • As usuall another great idea Chris, although hey no Loudmouthman in the sections so far ? I cant have disappeared that quickly ?
  • Wow - that seems like a really good (and, in retrospect, bloody obvious) idea! Ever consider making this a real web application instead of a Wiki? Know any good web programmers? ;)
  • Hi. Can I have the wiki invite key pls? Thanks
  • What a great idea!
    This makes it easier for people like me (who can be a little shy online) to connect on Twitter!
  • I really like this idea. It seems particulary useful for people new to twitter, but also for finding tweeps that might be relevant for you.

    The pbwiki is a good start. However, I think it will rapidly become more congested as topics, events, locales, etc are added. I agree with Mike, that a for reals webapp may be in order.
  • What a great idea! These packs allow new people the opportunity to "plug in" starting the moment they join Twitter.

    I look forward to reading your future blogs.

    See you on Twitter!
  • Bud
    Awesome idea. When I am still working on my list of followers for twitter and this would really simplify things.

    Also I would like to get listed to if possible. I guess I would be marketed in make money online or internet entrepreneur.

    Bud
    www.budcalabrese.com
  • SIsterSledge
    I wonder how people are managing follows/followers within vastly different groups...do you have more than one Twitter account?
  • SisterSledge
    Do you plan on posting an invite key here or making this public for editing?
  • I'm a one-account guy. I just watch different things at different times.
  • compassioninpolitics
    One of the difficult aspects about digg is finding people who share the same interests--just like Twitter. I'm making a post of Digg packs....

    Cheers!
  • Hi,
    I can't figure out how to add a Twitter Pack in the PBwiki interface using the Jaws For Windows screen reader:
    http://hj.com/jaws

    I have reported the problem to Eric Damery of
    http://freedomscientific.com
    and to PBwiki via GetSatisfaction:
    http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/topics/do_you...
    http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/topics/web_ac...

    I don't know if there is any work around to using the WYSIWYG editor. From what I can tell with the PBwiki documentation, it wants you to use the WYSIWYG editor to insert a new heading. It seems like new Twitter packs are created by adding a heading level 2 to the document?

    I also tried to edit the HTML source and manually use code to add a heading but it didn't seem to work.
    Also PBwiki still appears to have only a visual captcha on the "contact the Wiki owner," page. I will add that to the Get Satisfaction case. They really should fix the captcha more quickly if they have not already done so.

    I will try to play with it some more.
    Thanks, Mika.
  • Just found it, it exist, but even better than a wiki: http://twitterel.com
  • Oeps, for twitter users, follow http://twitter.com/TwitRel
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