Comments on: Making Twitter groups awesome

By: Gladys

Gladys — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:57:46 +0000

Well said Sundi! I am one who sometimes missed the group messages because they got lost in my stream. Even though I use TweetDeck and could set up another column for these, I’ve got so many columns going already I have to scroll over to see them all. I’d still likely get messages late.

I never saw this as a privacy issue for our Get Clients Now group. For me it was a handy way to send a message to everyone in the groups without having to type it multiple times or use up the majority of characters on who it went to.

Let’s hope the good people at Twitter can help with this!
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By: Sundi Hayes

Sundi Hayes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:52:09 +0000

Thanks for stopping by Adam!

I can see now how it might seem that the privacy level is important to me. It doesn’t matter to me that the Twitterverse knows we delay or call by a half hour of a day even! The value I put into Twitter having groups is that it tells specific people my message. It just happens that the private setting is what makes the group feature function correctly in the current design.

I don’t even care about having control over who joins. If Joe in Phoenix wants to know that Lisa in Chicago hit her GCN goal for the day I’m sure it would be fine with all of us in the group! The only difference between Joe and the rest of the group is that we were holding her accountable (in a supportive way) and he might not get the full impact of the achievement.

Most social sites have some level of approval set up; however, I don’t see that as a requirement or a roadblock to the minor change I’m suggesting.

If Twitter’s strength is in its public nature then I’m curious why there are direct messages?

By: Rachael

Rachael — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:10:20 +0000

I think that having the ability to filter by user-defined groups would be a fantastic addition to Twitter’s web interface. I’ve got really no clue how they would do that, but it would be a good idea – because if it stemmed from Twitter directly, it would translate (theoretically) into whatever third-party software each person uses to access their Twitter account.

I’m interested to see where this goes.
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By: Adam from Twibes

Adam from Twibes — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:01:03 +0000

I think we will have to wait a long time for private Twitter groups. Twitter’s strength is in its fundamentally public nature. Is it sufficient for what you want to do to have public groups where only the members control who gets to be a new member?

By: Cindy Bruce

Cindy Bruce — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:13:35 +0000

You hit that nail on the head Sundi. It sounded so simple and sweet when you set up our GCN group but then we realized it didn’t work the way we thought.

Agree totally with your definition and the fix. Will Twitter hear us? Let’s hope.