why don't twitter just open a metadata field and let the user fill in what ever data they like? e.g. This is a tweet Datetime: 2009-06-02 21:07 GMT+

why don't twitter just open a metadata field and let the user fill in what ever data they like? e.g. This is a tweet Datetime: 2009-06-02 21:07 GMT+8 Client: Ping.fm Location: 40.460237,79.101563 another example, for private dynamic metadata fields: This is another tweet, check this out http://bit.ly/chromium_win32_zip clicks: 213 And twitter just sell the API for 3rd party metadata providers.