a few ways to make Twitter better
I was asked recently, how would you make Twitter better. My first answer was just to make it work, as it has performance/scaling issues at the moment. But that's not a very satisfying answer to someone who's not an infrastructure mechanic. So, putting my user hat back on now that the week's pressures have flowed past, here's a list of things you might do to make twitter better:
- edit/delete old posts
- secret email gateway address for posting to
- multiple secret addresses so I can revoke one and not another
- random message feed : 1 per day, (or variable frequencies)
- see what friends of friends are saying (perhaps in a much smaller font)
- ability to nudge friends of friends
- get friends to vouch for me to their friends
- group friends
- set limits on updates wanted per friend or per group of friend
- more complex routing rules
- multiple IM accounts, multiple sms #s
- spell checker
- mobile friendly page (lighter on javascript & images)
- search on usernames
- search on user web addresses
- search on message text (who's talking about TIG)
Well, lets start there and see what else I can think of.
Labels: engineering, twitter