If you’ve been following my Twitter stream you would have seen me mention the creation of a Twitter client here or there. Well, here’s the first screenshot of it:
Yeah, there is nothing special about it yet. It’s showing tweets. Woo. All in good time though…
I do need a good name for it first.
Because my friends (and I) wonder what the point of Twitter is, I’ll post my ideas for such usage on my blog – not that they read it though.
#1: Party!
If all your friends are on Twitter and have set up their mobile phones for use with the service and have text notifications on, it can be a great way to save money when texting lots of friends about a party.
Why? Because Twitter has a send to text feature which is free. Also here in New Zealand, it costs nothing to receive texts, but costs to send them.
It is also less effort, just posting “Party at my house” on Twitter is less effort than trying to type out on your phone and then selecting a list of contacts you want to send it to (especially since many phones only allow around 10 contacts at a time to be selected).
I’ve used the copied “status” or “What are you doing?” features on Facebook and Bebo. They are pretty addictive. I’ve been thinking about the micro-blogging thing and how to apply it on my website, or do something with it.
Bebo’s implementation of micro-blogging is poor. You write in the thing, it gets put on all your friends changes pages and on your profile. That’s it. There is no web feed, no way for people to follow your updates, no way for you to see previous micro-posts. What’s the point?
Facebook’s is better, though does go a bit shorter than Twitters. You can get the RSS, people can get updates (I get mine via the Boost extension for Firefox which pops up a little box whenever one of my friends has updated). I can’t update it from anywhere though.
Twitter is basically just like those but more “connected” so to speak. I can post “tweets” by using the website, an extension in Firefox, a software program, a txt message from my cellphone, a program for my cellphone… the whole shebang. Then, you can subscribe to them, or follow them, and get updates via email or txt message.
I’m not going to be one of those that will send out what I’m eating for dinner (last night I had cottage pie) or send random updates (I walked to work from class). In fact, I’m completely unsure what I’ll do with it.
I can integrate it with Daniels.net.nz, have my Twitter account a “personal” one for close friends and create a special version for my website, or what I should post on it. I just don’t know.
But, what I do know, is that whenever I see the Twitter entry in my phonebook on my cell, it gives me the urge to say what I’m doing.
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