Twitter API Ideas - digg, categorization, MyBlogLog

By Steve Poland   •   March 23, 2007

As of now, Twitter is mostly used by the techies. But once this thing hits the MySpace crowd, I think it’s going to explode even bigger. People like to quickly notify the world what they’re doing — that’s what Twitter enables you to do.

News is breaking via Twitter, faster than news blogs. But how do you find this news — other than being a friend of some of the top news outfits?

People breaking news via TwitterSomehow these twitters need to start being digg’d (”ranked”) and categorized. Well, at least, that’d be nice. I’d love to see a techmeme of twitters.

Also, I could swear there was a search box on Twitter, but I can’t find it now. It’d be nice to setup an RSS feed on a keyword.

Also, categorizing by language.

Also, dating and friending — who’s in my hometown twittering away that shares common interests with me?

Would be nice to reply to these twitter users — a lot of twitterers tell you what they’re researching, or looking to buy, etc. Would be nice to reach-out to them someway.

You know MyBlogLog (one of my favs) — what about Twitter like MyBlogLog, where the avatars appear on your website if that Twitter user was on your website.. and allow them to twitter a brief message about the website (or specific URL — blog post).

What other mashup ideas do you have? My favorite thus far is TwitterVision — talk about mindless addiction.




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3 Responses to “Twitter API Ideas - digg, categorization, MyBlogLog”

  1. MyAvatars 0.2 Steve Poland on March 23rd, 2007 2:42 pm (perm link)

    A service that allows you to vote on the best twitters — the best quotes… like this one.

  2. MyAvatars 0.2 Mike on March 23rd, 2007 3:34 pm (perm link)

    Regarding the search box, you’re thinking of:
    http://twittermap.com/search/

  3. MyAvatars 0.2 Sean on March 23rd, 2007 6:47 pm (perm link)

    i believe that Jaiku.com is generally a whole lot better although i still use twitter (but very little), there are only a few little features that could possibly make Jaiku a whole lot better http://ibox-security.net/seanprice/blog/10-jaiku-features-i-would-like/

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