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Twitter Packs- a Way to Share Interests

January 28, 2008

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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Comments
Comment by Shana Albert - TheNanny612 on January 28, 2008 @ 11:35 am

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

Comment by Colin Walker on January 28, 2008 @ 1:04 pm

Great idea. Makes me wonder why someone hasn’t done it in the past. It’s so simple it’s brilliant!

Comment by Wendy on January 28, 2008 @ 1:05 pm

Need an invite key. Won’t let me add anything without it.

Comment by Nicholas Butler on January 28, 2008 @ 1:43 pm

As usuall another great idea Chris, although hey no Loudmouthman in the sections so far ? I cant have disappeared that quickly ?

Trackback by Spaghetti Testing on January 28, 2008 @ 1:47 pm

Twitter Packs…

Here’s a clever idea from @chrisbrogan — Twitter Packs. Chris has built a wiki that lists twitter users by various categories. Why? Because when you are getting started with Twitter, it helps to follow people with shared interests. This way…

Comment by Mike Desjardins on January 28, 2008 @ 2:23 pm

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? ;)

Comment by Dominic Campbell on January 28, 2008 @ 6:21 pm

Hi. Can I have the wiki invite key pls? Thanks

Comment by Danielle Katz on January 28, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

What a great idea!
This makes it easier for people like me (who can be a little shy online) to connect on Twitter!

Comment by Josh Nichols on January 28, 2008 @ 11:01 pm

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.

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Comment by Scott Dunn on January 30, 2008 @ 9:53 pm

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!

Comment by Bud on January 31, 2008 @ 11:06 am

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
http://www.budcalabrese.com

Comment by SIsterSledge on January 31, 2008 @ 2:26 pm

I wonder how people are managing follows/followers within vastly different groups…do you have more than one Twitter account?

Comment by SisterSledge on January 31, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

Do you plan on posting an invite key here or making this public for editing?

Comment by chrisbrogan on January 31, 2008 @ 2:58 pm

I’m a one-account guy. I just watch different things at different times.

Comment by Nathan Ketsdever on February 1, 2008 @ 5:42 pm

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!

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Comment by Mika Pyyhkala on September 24, 2008 @ 1:29 pm

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_have_any_blind_users_at_pbwiki_and_are_your_wikis_compatible_with_screen_readers
http://getsatisfaction.com/pbwiki/topics/web_accessibility

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.

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