11 Ways to Improve Twitter
There is no hiding the fact; Twitter is one of the world’s top social media sites. I previously touched on the Twitter explosion a couple of weeks ago.
Twitter has created a community where individuals can tap into people / information they never had dreamed possible before. I for one have made many interesting contacts from website designers, plumbers, ex-felons to leaders of various industries.
One way that we can show our gratitude for the hard work the Twitter guys put in is to give them constructive feedback to help them make it into an even better site.
The other night I asked my Twitter friends how they would improve Twitter.
Here are the 11 top improvements from the list:
- Threaded Messages: allows to quickly see replies to tweets
- Search within your own updates: currently no easy way to search through ones updates
- Reinstate Twitter Instant Messaging: if it’s good enough for Facebook…remember way back when we used to be able to do this?
- Ability to create groups: organize your Twitter friends into groups so you can manage them better
- RSS for customized groups: related to the above – keep track of groups you’re interested in
- Filters on updates to avoid noise: there are just some days where you’d wish people would shut up
- Popularity tweets of friends, tags: trending of hot topics within your own profile page
- Tweeter Timezone display: Not everyone has their profile filled out properly so it’d be good to display their local time so you can tweet accordingly
- Common insterests with other people: Like the StumbleUpon and Digg way of meeting more like-minded people
- Easy ReTweet ability from Twitter Profile Page: ReTweeting is a big part of the Twitter community
- Get rid of the more button: I can understand that this would save on server load so in my view a nice-to-have rather than mandatory
Do you agree? How would you improve Twitter?
Thanks to the following Twitter users for their input (Follow them):
@Jking89
@labeet
@EmVicW
@mistygirlph
@DigitalSignals
@amitsiwal
@gatorjohn
@iamnotjustmummy
@pedaah
@WillHughes
@netwizard2003
@LostInInaka
Oh and don’t forget to add me too 
@mr_gadget
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