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I kinda hear ya. However - I always thought of twitter more as a communication protocol rather then a content app. I think twitter today is indeed already full

I kinda hear ya. However - I always thought of twitter more as a communication protocol rather then a content app. I think twitter today is indeed already full of noise, and anyway there's no way to use it for content without curation tools.

wut42 13y ago
Yes. Me too (hence the comparision with IRC/mIRC Scripts). However this kind of communication is just purely personal, I doubt anyone is interested in the fact that some friend wanted to know how full his dropbox was at some time in the day. Maybe the _result_ is interesting, but the trigger is not. But if this works with direct messages, i'm buying it! (edit: typos)
- shaharsol 13y ago
  I have an example in another comment of how I can buy stock with it: CTRL @robinhoodapp buy $FB USD100 And then apart from making the transaction I can start convert with my followers about this deal. What do u think of such scenario?
  - wut42 13y ago
    This example is cool— the trigger here is an useful information worth sharing. You need more of theses :)
  - mvc 13y ago
    Sure! By all means advertise to the world that you're about to make a trade. The HFT folks will love that.
untog 13y ago
Still though, surely all of this could be done over DMs?
- shaharsol 13y ago
  yes but i wanted to keep the language natural. and if you naturally want to address dropbox on twitter, then you "@dropbox" them, and not "DM @ctrltwit do something with dropbox". moreover i realized best usecases are replies to tweets (like liking an instagram photo, subscribing to a youtube channel, saving to pocket), and those wouldn't have been possible with DMs