For Twitter to be a more efficient social information tool, users must have finer control over their feeds, say through a client side filter for RSS like Proximitron for HTTP. With a few lines of perl code one could customize their feeds beyond the default blunt rules. (IRC 2.0?)

I tried it out, and I liked it.

I think the whole “Twittr”;-) thing shouldn’t be taken too seriously — and I agree with the comment by Gedeon.

Sometimes people have to share some important info (“X going to the pub at Five corners to drink a pint of ale”, or “Y just discovered a two-line CSS solution for making IE6 showing alpha PNGs correctly”) …and sometimes, people share common things like “drinking coffee, reading email” – and the best part is, I think, that Twitter lets you do both, without marking your 140-characters-long-post in any way.

The simplicity is what I like about it.

Nothing too complicated. No tagging, no “Show last 5 posts by X and last 10 posts by Y”, nothing. Simply read a long list of one or two-line posts by people you have added, that’s it. Let others read what you have to say. Post when you want to. Once a day. Or once a week. Or 100 times a day.

Maybe Twitter could be transformed into something more complicated, powerful, customizable… but I think we’ve had enough of these systems already, we are all over technoratied/digged/delicioused/tagged/blogged/pinged/rated/trackbacked/flickrd… So maybe something really simple will do fine, this time.

Who knows:-)

And maybe not, maybe Twitter will be transformed in lots of ways to suit us better, and will become one of the new things we can’t live without.

Time will show.

Now heading for Twitter to twitter about how I commented on Twitter:D

I love the service if no other reason than I can jot down something via IM and pow, it pops up at the top of my blog like a micro-post. And so far, most of my small list of friends use it in a socially aware way.

(As requested by me—trying to debug some trouble. –E.)

Heck, if I were an artichoke, I’d probably still be a paranoid narcissist. But at least then I’d be edible.

I’m touchy about cowpie linguistics ’cause I’m a linguist. That’s a whole other topic.

Ken, Twitter Submitter author (twitter.pbwiki.com)

Ah, anyway, right now I don’t see Twitter as anything more than a bit of fun now and again, but could see how it could be seriously useful with lots more refinement.

Or – so I wouldn’t miss historical changes during times I wasn’t logged in – the ability to query an AIM/Jabber contact’s status change history.

Because I haven’t been able to shake the feeling that Twitter is really just away messages in a slightly decoupled and less perfectly implemented format.