0xDECAFBAD » Sticky Tags for Twitter?
0xDECAFBAD » Sticky Tags for Twitter?
Les Orchard thinks Twitter needs tags:
No, fitting tags into the 140 characters for a message won’t work. And, no, tagging every tweet as you go is a horrible approach - no one will do it. What I’ve thought might work, though, are sticky tags.
Sticky tags would persist from update to update. From the web UI, you could drop “work” or “gnomedex” or “l:95051 beer concert somerandomband” into an additional tags field and all tweets from then on will gain those tags until you empty the tag field.
There could be shortcut commands to change or clear tags - ala “d someone” for direct messaging. This would be especially useful while out and about and mobile. Say you text “t bus commute” to Twitter when you get on the bus for home, then anything you might emit from then on, until you change the tags, gets tagged with “bus” and “commute”.
I agree.:
I concur and obviously this can’t be a user created convention by something in the post. The 140 character limit would require the developers to add a field to the db if regular tagging was used, which given the past db issues at twitter might be unlikely. This might be more workable with the sticky tags method.
People made a big deal out of Pownce as a “Twitter-killer” but to me that a seems unlikely. The real twitter-killer would be the first twitter clone to add tagging. There might be such a service and I’m just not aware of the feature, dunno. But anyway, this post is toast.
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