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I wish Twitter supported this. It would be nice to have a mega-stream from NYT that dumped out tons of updates, but I could subscribe to threads of those update

I wish Twitter supported this. It would be nice to have a mega-stream from NYT that dumped out tons of updates, but I could subscribe to threads of those updates. For instance I'd like to get "broadcasts" for their ongoing coverage of the current Senate filibuster news as well as non-breaking news, like their movie reviews, etc. Essentially I'd like publishers to be able to categorize their tweets and make those categories available for subscription without having to create and follow discrete twitter accounts.

untog 13y ago
Sadly this is exactly the kind of thing of thing that could have been built on top of RSS, before everyone gave up on it.
- eridius 13y ago
  For non-breaking news, sure. For breaking events, RSS is inappropriate. You need a push model (which ADN Broadcasts is), whereas RSS is the epitome of pull.
  - buckbova 13y ago
    I still don't see the need for this. If my RSS reader is always polling for new messages then I will get the message. Push or pull, the end user doesn't see the difference.
    - comex 13y ago
      If "always" means an interval of more than 10 seconds, true push is still going to feel a lot more high tech, even if it probably doesn't matter in practice for most (but not all) broadcasts.
    - eridius 13y ago
      You'd be hard-pressed to find an RSS reader that polls more often than every 5 minutes, and I would wager all of the RSS services have a longer refresh timer than that. If you're trying to keep up with breaking events, being 5+ minutes behind everyone else is pointless. You're just going to end up glued to Twitter.
- zellyn 13y ago
  Agreed. Nothing you couldn't do with RSS+pubsubhubbub. Perhaps it'll occupy a different area of thought-space and usage, even if it's technically equivalent.
sebkomianos 13y ago
Exactly! As if it is hard for media to understand that they can use twitter in a fashion that's not so maniac about tweeting for everything and anything.

untog 13y ago

Sadly this is exactly the kind of thing of thing that could have been built on top of RSS, before everyone gave up on it.

eridius 13y ago
For non-breaking news, sure. For breaking events, RSS is inappropriate. You need a push model (which ADN Broadcasts is), whereas RSS is the epitome of pull.
- buckbova 13y ago
  I still don't see the need for this. If my RSS reader is always polling for new messages then I will get the message. Push or pull, the end user doesn't see the difference.
  - comex 13y ago
    If "always" means an interval of more than 10 seconds, true push is still going to feel a lot more high tech, even if it probably doesn't matter in practice for most (but not all) broadcasts.
  - eridius 13y ago
    You'd be hard-pressed to find an RSS reader that polls more often than every 5 minutes, and I would wager all of the RSS services have a longer refresh timer than that. If you're trying to keep up with breaking events, being 5+ minutes behind everyone else is pointless. You're just going to end up glued to Twitter.
zellyn 13y ago
Agreed. Nothing you couldn't do with RSS+pubsubhubbub. Perhaps it'll occupy a different area of thought-space and usage, even if it's technically equivalent.

sebkomianos 13y ago

Exactly! As if it is hard for media to understand that they can use twitter in a fashion that's not so maniac about tweeting for everything and anything.