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Absolutely not. The whole nature of twitter is about its spontaneity and real-time nature. Can you imagine if someone had to go through the extra thought step

by athst 15y ago

Absolutely not. The whole nature of twitter is about its spontaneity and real-time nature. Can you imagine if someone had to go through the extra thought step of "which group should I send this to?" every time they sent out a tweet? It would ruin the service. Also, a primary difference between Facebook (now Google+) and Twitter is that Twitter was assumed to be public by default. It is a public form of communication, and the Google+ style of sorting your messages into specific buckets of people doesn't fit it at all.

freddealmeida 15y ago
I agree
sebastianavina 15y ago
I've noticed a curious trend among my friends... Because all modern cell phones have Wi-Fi, and there are a lot of free hotspots around the city (here in Mexico), they use twitter as SMS... They log and send a message to their friends about the hour to hang out, and the place, and the chat over twitter... I'm nor sure if they know it's public, or the implications of that, but they truly do that... I'm begging to understand twitter, as poor man's phone calls...
- dhoelzgen 15y ago
  I've noticed the same thing among some of my friends. However, I don't think that's what twitter is meant (or good) for.
saurik 15y ago
...and yet I know a ton of people who have fully-private Twitter accounts, every one of which who bemoan the fact that they don't /want/ to have a /fully/ private account, but that they are more comfortable sending an important subset of things they say to people they know, an are therefore stuck. These people then end up having multiple Twitter accounts, which is a drastically more difficult "extra step" to perform when they go to post a new message: sufficiently so that a good number (most, in fact) of the people I know who do this simply don't bother, and /only/ keep the private account. (Although, I personally am in this overall category, but chose to keep only the public one, and thereby simply "don't really use Twitter, as they apparently only care about weird totally-public PR garbage".) If Twitter added the circles feature tomorrow, people who actually considered it a pain to think about simply wouldn't: they would ignore the box, and business would go on as usual. However, if they wanted the feature, they would probably start using Twitter a lot more; and, as they are no longer "rapidly" switching accounts before posting, that allocated time would be even more effective. (Also, for the record, if Twitter did do this, it would be even extra awesome, as "listing" someone already provides all of the "circled" data model, meaning that a lot of people, like myself, for whom this feature would have immediate value, already have our followees organized usefully.)

by athst 15y ago

freddealmeida 15y ago

I agree

sebastianavina 15y ago

I've noticed a curious trend among my friends... Because all modern cell phones have Wi-Fi, and there are a lot of free hotspots around the city (here in Mexico), they use twitter as SMS... They log and send a message to their friends about the hour to hang out, and the place, and the chat over twitter... I'm nor sure if they know it's public, or the implications of that, but they truly do that... I'm begging to understand twitter, as poor man's phone calls...

dhoelzgen 15y ago
I've noticed the same thing among some of my friends. However, I don't think that's what twitter is meant (or good) for.

saurik 15y ago

...and yet I know a ton of people who have fully-private Twitter accounts, every one of which who bemoan the fact that they don't /want/ to have a /fully/ private account, but that they are more comfortable sending an important subset of things they say to people they know, an are therefore stuck. These people then end up having multiple Twitter accounts, which is a drastically more difficult "extra step" to perform when they go to post a new message: sufficiently so that a good number (most, in fact) of the people I know who do this simply don't bother, and /only/ keep the private account. (Although, I personally am in this overall category, but chose to keep only the public one, and thereby simply "don't really use Twitter, as they apparently only care about weird totally-public PR garbage".) If Twitter added the circles feature tomorrow, people who actually considered it a pain to think about simply wouldn't: they would ignore the box, and business would go on as usual. However, if they wanted the feature, they would probably start using Twitter a lot more; and, as they are no longer "rapidly" switching accounts before posting, that allocated time would be even more effective. (Also, for the record, if Twitter did do this, it would be even extra awesome, as "listing" someone already provides all of the "circled" data model, meaning that a lot of people, like myself, for whom this feature would have immediate value, already have our followees organized usefully.)