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You'll see. I'm working on that now. - Robert Scoble

My super-duper tweet will make your supertweet look like an ordinary tweet by comparison... - Cliff Gerrish

My mega trace busta busta will over tweet whatever fiendish plot you have cooked up. Http://victus1.victusmedia.com , ok it's just a two way search, information and ad tool. But tweets are only good if you can find the right ones ;) - Mark Essel from iPhone

I haven't noticed it at Twitter, but I've noticed favorites used that way on identi.ca - Spidra Webster

The fundamental flaw seems to be one stream per account. So the only correct way to seriously use Twitter is to make several topic-specific accounts. - Vezquex: God of FF

Jesse I'm just glad to hear that I'm not too far off base. If you are talking about tagging someone will listen. Louis thanks for sharing. - Keith - @tsudo

Vezquex you hit the nail on the head. I think tagging may provide different data streams. Thank you for reading. - Keith - @tsudo

No one's talking about Twitter tags because there's only one tag used on Twitter AFAIK, which is the favorites tag. No doubt, as Twitter continue to try and make twitter 'stickier' they will add some though. - Jim Connolly

The lists can operate in a "tag-like" way, but as Vezquex mentioned, those who tweets about just 1 subject and 1 subject only are accounts that market or promote something (ie Dell & CoffeeCupNews), whereas most accounts are also/mainly used for personal tweets. - sofarsoShawn

Here's where I touched on it: http://staynalive.com/article... - I've been mentioning this on Twitter and on the dev mailing list for awhile though. Twitter needs a meta layer so developers can categorize Tweets like you mention. - Jesse Stay

What about using hashtags like #SideWiki #WhuffiesWelcome, (add your favorites here) .. - Dr. Fridemar Pache

But will Facebook stop working on iPhone apps just because of this? No. Neither will Google. Unfortunately, the big companies that have the clout to do something will not stand up for developer's rights, as long as the consumer insists on buying the iPhone and other such locked down devices. - Piaw Na

In fairness to Google they are fighting for openness in the one conduit they control which is Android. Its asking a lot to expect them to completely boycott iPhone which would be their only other leverage with Apple. - Ed Millard

Well, then I should expect Facebook to support Android, as well as all the other companies that have the resources to do so. :-) - Piaw Na

Piaw, are you saying that facebook isn't supporting android? last i checked there was a facebook android app -- plus, this is just one guy's opinions, he does not speak for facebook (as far as i can tell) - Chris Heath

Piaw, I'd imagine that Apple's non-approval of several Google apps has prompted Google to devote more resources to making superb Android apps (and yes, apps for the Pre and Blackberry) than iPhone. Where it really hurts is apps that have a hardware component. I don't know many/any developers willing to make consumer apps for the iPhone that require a hardware component because the rist... more... - Kevin Fox

I imagine Facebook is putting their resources in the ports their user base is demanding. The number of users they have on iPhone demands attention, and shorting it for reasons that are somewhat political probably isn't wise. With the growing popularity of Android it will probably warrant increased resources. Kind of sounds like Joe would rather make the web app work better and that would be more platform agnostic though its pretty hard to do a really exceptional mobile experience through a browser. - Ed Millard

Is there a FB ad on Android? I switched from Android back to Blackberry earlier this year, but I definitely remember that there was no Android app before I switched. - Piaw Na

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Ed Millard

I guess he's got his heart in the right place, but I can't get too worked up about this issue, not coming from the console game work, where all the platforms are locked down and always have been. - Andrew C from Android

I've never seen a major-label game be blocked from publication on a major platform for ambiguous and arbitrary reasons. Imagine if Modern Warfare 2 requires a patch to fix a hack and Microsoft decided to disallow it because they've decided that they don't want warfare scenes that take place within the United States? That's a fairer comparison. - Kevin Fox

I have heard a few horror stories of games being rejected, or at least delayed, because the console manufacturer in question had its own strategic reasons for doing so (because they had a similar in-house game coming out, or because they thought there were too many similar games coming out at once). Not quite the same thing, but still a pretty dangerous situation if you're the developer. - Joel Webber

Console platforms have a limited life (try playing the PS games on the PS3). Phone OS, however, look like they'll be around for the long term. - Piaw Na