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[Please review]Our small twitter app

9 points by shabda 18y ago

apgwoz 18y ago
> Send direct message to users not following you But, they still have to follow you. > Receive direct messages from users without having them to litter into your timeline It doesn't litter my timeline. In fact, I've never seen a direct message on my timeline. It gets emailed to me, and shows up in the "Direct messages" tab. > Decide who you want to receive direct messages from Don't I do this already by just not following them? Not seeing a use for it, sorry.
- mileszs 18y ago
  I don't think you fully understood what this thing is. (I'm not affiliated, I just feel the overwhelming urge to clarify.) They don't have to follow _you_. They do have to follow @dmpp. (I think this may be what you said. "You" seemed ambiguous. Sorry.) No, direct messages are not in your timeline, but if you want to direct message someone, the rest of their tweets will have to be in your timeline. Using this service, you could direct message some people without following them, hence their tweets not littering your timeline. Yes, you do decide who you receive direct messages from already. In context, that sentence meant "now that you've opened yourself up to direct messages from people you are not following, we do actually offer some level of control over what direct messages you receive." I haven't decided yet whether this is useful to me personally or not. Nonetheless, I find it clever.
  - apgwoz 18y ago
    I guess I just read it literally as opposed to thinking about it. Personally, I've never had the need to direct message someone who I'm not following. I _guess_ there's probably an example I could come up with in where I wanted to DM someone that wasn't following me...
    - scorpion032 18y ago
      Think of it something like this. "U can now receive DMs from people you have @replied sometime, even tho' you dont follow them anymore." The above represents the default behavior, however, U could modify access to be able to receive DM from anybody/only followers
  - scorpion032 18y ago
    Thank You for having understood it very well. You might find it useful personally, if you look at it this way: "You will now be able to receive DMs from people you have @replied some time, irrespective of whether you are now following them" And you might find the app useful, in general if you have a look at this: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=cant+dm http://search.twitter.com/search?q=cant+dm
- scorpion032 18y ago
  > But, they still have to follow you. No. If they ever @replied to U, U can DM them. (default behavior) >It doesn't litter my timeline. In fact, I've never seen a direct message on my timeline. It gets emailed to me, and shows up in the "Direct messages" tab. If you follow someone, so that they may be able to DM U (say @rememberthemilk), your timeline now includes their tweets, which U may not want. Don't I do this already by just not following them? Nope. Twitter decides this for U. U can now only receive DMs from people you follow. By following this, you could beat this restriction and define your own restriction. The default restriction we use is people you have @replied can send U DMs. Not seeing a use for it, sorry. You are free to do so. Meanwhile please care to have a look at this: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22cant+dm%22 There are a few people each hour, not being able to DM someone.
Tichy 18y ago
I think the proposed benefits are to subtle. The only possible benefit I see is the access levels.
pclark 18y ago
what this tweet said (ironically on your site) bottom line: http://snapplr.com/p81m http://snapplr.com/p81m
parterburn 18y ago
Scoble follows everyone and hates DMs, so that's a bad example. I like the idea of trying to break through DM access levels, but this doesn't seem like the ideal solution. I can't imagine enough people following @dmpp to make this work across the board...just seems like another service to monitor.
- scorpion032 18y ago
  Actually, Scoble follows everyone _because_he_can_receive_DMs_ from them. Now, all he has to do is to follow @dmpp.
danielrhammond 18y ago
One thing regardless of your apps utility. The logo on the top has color profile information in it and thus does not display correctly on mac computers with safari meaning it does not match the background. I see a lot of startups make this mistake. Here's a quick post i wrote about it back in March with screens explaining what i mean: http://danielrhammond.com/post/29596079/dont-embed-color-profile http://danielrhammond.com/post/29596079/dont-embed-color-pro...
- callahad 18y ago
  Speaking of the logo, that little bird looks a lot like the [Twitterrific icon][1]. Especially in [sm12.jpg][2]. Do you have permission to use that icon? [1]: http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/ http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/ [2]: http://dmplusplus.com/images/sm12.jpg http://dmplusplus.com/images/sm12.jpg
  - scorpion032 18y ago
    I have specifically verified it from the designer, we do have rights to use all the images that have been used.
braindead_in 18y ago
In the para 'Using twitter and @dmpp: (new, intelligent way!)' the @dmpp links lead to a 404 not found.
azharcs 18y ago
It looks like this app is actually solving a small problem people have on twitter. I don't actually use dm's on twitter(unless really necessary), so this app would be of little use to me. Also i am seeing a small percentage of people using twitter as their mail id. As twitter grows more and more, there might be more people sending dm's to people who are not following them back. Also there are a bunch of purists on twitter who follow people whom they really know well to keep their timeline clean, it would be useful for them.
jackowayed 18y ago
there's a reason why you can't just dm anyone. Your spam filter better be perfect, which it's not, or else people are going to fetch your whole followers list and dm everyone on it spam.

9 points by shabda 18y ago

> Send direct message to users not following you But, they still have to follow you. > Receive direct messages from users without having them to litter into your timeline It doesn't litter my timeline. In fact, I've never seen a direct message on my timeline. It gets emailed to me, and shows up in the "Direct messages" tab. > Decide who you want to receive direct messages from Don't I do this already by just not following them? Not seeing a use for it, sorry.

mileszs 18y ago
I don't think you fully understood what this thing is. (I'm not affiliated, I just feel the overwhelming urge to clarify.) They don't have to follow _you_. They do have to follow @dmpp. (I think this may be what you said. "You" seemed ambiguous. Sorry.) No, direct messages are not in your timeline, but if you want to direct message someone, the rest of their tweets will have to be in your timeline. Using this service, you could direct message some people without following them, hence their tweets not littering your timeline. Yes, you do decide who you receive direct messages from already. In context, that sentence meant "now that you've opened yourself up to direct messages from people you are not following, we do actually offer some level of control over what direct messages you receive." I haven't decided yet whether this is useful to me personally or not. Nonetheless, I find it clever.
- apgwoz 18y ago
  I guess I just read it literally as opposed to thinking about it. Personally, I've never had the need to direct message someone who I'm not following. I _guess_ there's probably an example I could come up with in where I wanted to DM someone that wasn't following me...
  - scorpion032 18y ago
    Think of it something like this. "U can now receive DMs from people you have @replied sometime, even tho' you dont follow them anymore." The above represents the default behavior, however, U could modify access to be able to receive DM from anybody/only followers
- scorpion032 18y ago
  Thank You for having understood it very well. You might find it useful personally, if you look at it this way: "You will now be able to receive DMs from people you have @replied some time, irrespective of whether you are now following them" And you might find the app useful, in general if you have a look at this: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=cant+dm http://search.twitter.com/search?q=cant+dm
scorpion032 18y ago
> But, they still have to follow you. No. If they ever @replied to U, U can DM them. (default behavior) >It doesn't litter my timeline. In fact, I've never seen a direct message on my timeline. It gets emailed to me, and shows up in the "Direct messages" tab. If you follow someone, so that they may be able to DM U (say @rememberthemilk), your timeline now includes their tweets, which U may not want. Don't I do this already by just not following them? Nope. Twitter decides this for U. U can now only receive DMs from people you follow. By following this, you could beat this restriction and define your own restriction. The default restriction we use is people you have @replied can send U DMs. Not seeing a use for it, sorry. You are free to do so. Meanwhile please care to have a look at this: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22cant+dm%22 There are a few people each hour, not being able to DM someone.

Tichy 18y ago

I think the proposed benefits are to subtle. The only possible benefit I see is the access levels.

pclark 18y ago

what this tweet said (ironically on your site) bottom line: http://snapplr.com/p81m http://snapplr.com/p81m

parterburn 18y ago

Scoble follows everyone and hates DMs, so that's a bad example. I like the idea of trying to break through DM access levels, but this doesn't seem like the ideal solution. I can't imagine enough people following @dmpp to make this work across the board...just seems like another service to monitor.

scorpion032 18y ago
Actually, Scoble follows everyone _because_he_can_receive_DMs_ from them. Now, all he has to do is to follow @dmpp.

danielrhammond 18y ago

One thing regardless of your apps utility. The logo on the top has color profile information in it and thus does not display correctly on mac computers with safari meaning it does not match the background. I see a lot of startups make this mistake. Here's a quick post i wrote about it back in March with screens explaining what i mean: http://danielrhammond.com/post/29596079/dont-embed-color-profile http://danielrhammond.com/post/29596079/dont-embed-color-pro...

callahad 18y ago
Speaking of the logo, that little bird looks a lot like the [Twitterrific icon][1]. Especially in [sm12.jpg][2]. Do you have permission to use that icon? [1]: http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/ http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/ [2]: http://dmplusplus.com/images/sm12.jpg http://dmplusplus.com/images/sm12.jpg
- scorpion032 18y ago
  I have specifically verified it from the designer, we do have rights to use all the images that have been used.

braindead_in 18y ago

In the para 'Using twitter and @dmpp: (new, intelligent way!)' the @dmpp links lead to a 404 not found.

azharcs 18y ago

It looks like this app is actually solving a small problem people have on twitter. I don't actually use dm's on twitter(unless really necessary), so this app would be of little use to me. Also i am seeing a small percentage of people using twitter as their mail id. As twitter grows more and more, there might be more people sending dm's to people who are not following them back. Also there are a bunch of purists on twitter who follow people whom they really know well to keep their timeline clean, it would be useful for them.

jackowayed 18y ago

there's a reason why you can't just dm anyone. Your spam filter better be perfect, which it's not, or else people are going to fetch your whole followers list and dm everyone on it spam.