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.
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.
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.