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Now We Can Rig Up Twitter "Groups"
- vyrotek 17y agoSending message to specific people or groups? Im pretty sure this is called Instant Messenger.
- nirmal 17y agoI've always had a problem getting Adium to properly setup group chats. Does anyone have a multi-protocol IM client for Mac which does support group chatting properly?
- tptacek 17y agoSending a message to a persistant, searchable noticeboard of messages by topic? I'm pretty sure this is called Twitter.
- Scriptor 17y agoForums? Email? (Gmail does have pretty good search) Actually, even factoring in search, unless your group ends up having a _huge_ amount of messages a basic text search should be enough. In that case, IM should do fine.
- nirmal 17y agoI do something similar to this for a group that I'm involved in. We have a registered twitter account. This account follows all of the group members. If a member direct messages the group account, this message is rebroadcast. This works regardless of which way twitter decides to go with their settings. The only downside is that unlike the solution mentioned in the article, our solution requires a cron job to poll twitter for any DMs to the group account.
- thwarted 17y agoOr, you could use a service that supports this kind of functionality and not run the risk of having to turn lemons into lemonade again when twitter makes a change that shuts out the small percentage of users who are working around deficiencies in their system.