Twitter Threads
I've been getting into Twitter as of late, and I admit that I'm enjoying the micro-blogging world intermixed with a little bit of social networking. I've been entirely disenchanted lately with Facebook, especially since their recent interface overhaul. It seems overloaded, and they've pushed the micro-blogging feed too far. The Facebook feed has reached a point where it's no longer useful because there is too much there.
So I've migrated to a smaller community over at Twitter, and I've been enjoying it - for the most part. One of the things I started to miss from Facebook were the mini-feeds that would spin off of a posting, creating a conversation. Now Twitter lets you converse with @tweets, but more then once I've thought someone was replying to tweet X when they were really replying to tweet Y. If you use the web interface you can now reference back the old tweet, but there's an extra step involved there and it's only one tweet at a time.
What I've wanted for a little while now is threading for tweeted-conversations. I want to take it a step further though, I want threading and then I want my client to be intelligent enough to move a thread up to the top of my tweet list when there's a new tweet in the conversation. Then just for extra measure I want to be able to clearly see where tweeting on Day 1 is from tweeting on Day 2.
To my surprise there is very little activity on the world wide web for threading twitter. I imagine that there are a number of reasons for this, the API rate limits being a huge one. All this aside though, I began to think about how I would deal with threading twitter. This snow-balled into an experimental project I am working on.
The idea for the project is simple, it's not to reinvent twitter nor is it to develop yet another air application for your computer. It's simply to augment the existing web interface for twitter's user home page with a threaded version. Along the way I may toss in some other nifty tricks, but the principal problem I'm trying to solve is threading.
So stay tuned and keep your eyes open, it's on the horizon... and if you happen to be following me on Twitter pay attention to the source of my tweets, you may even see this mysterious project appear occassionally.
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