A smarter multiperson twitter reply

For this demonstration, we’ll use @jX, @shadytrees, and @Tom. Because that’s what happened.

Tom and jX are reciprocal. Tom follows shadytrees and jX follows shadytrees. shadytrees does not follow tom nor does he follow jx, so regardless of his @reply settings, he would not see a tweet addressed in this format:

@Tom @shadytrees text

However, because Tom follows shadytrees and sees replies to people he’s following from people he’s following, both shadytrees and Tom will see a tweet addressed in this format:

@shadytrees @Tom text

I seek a smarter twitter client that allows multiperson replies (well, two is simple here, but doing it for more people that don’t have a follow network is technically impossible in a single tweet), and figures out when a person such as jX wants to reply to both shadytrees and Tom to address shadytrees first so that Tom will also see it.

2 Comments »

  1. logan had this to say,

    March 10, 2009 @ 1:10 am

    Well you could use something that doesn’t suck like FriendFeed or Plurk for starters. :D

  2. Nathan Sharfi had this to say,

    March 15, 2009 @ 2:05 pm

    You don’t want a smarter Twitter client. You want Twitter to be smarter.

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