Twitter's pages for individual tweets aught to... - phil baumann

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Twitter's pages for individual tweets aught to provide a FriendFeed interface. That way Twitter could still be Twitter, while enabling extended and fuller conversation and meta-data around individual tweets. Similar to how Scoble used FF (linking on Twitter to a FF conversation, thereby igniting deeper conversation), here's what Twitter could do:

January 16, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

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1. Just steal the Friendfeed interface and dump it onto individual tweet statuses. - phil baumann

2. Provide sharing features across social graphs. Affordances with rich sharing options (sharing comments on Posterous, Facebook, FriendFeed, blog, etc.) - phil baumann

3. Provide a hyperlinked icon within tweets that indicate a conversation has been started so followers are aware of the link. - phil baumann

4. Developers could exploit these features to make it easier to use. FF's API would have been excellent to develop, but Twitter stole the show from it. - phil baumann

5. Enable embedding of discussions on other properties. - phil baumann

7. Offer a tagging feature (with public and private setting options). - phil baumann

8. None of this would affect the normal flow of Twitter. No Interruption of the basic service, just an additional real estate to expand conversation. - phil baumann

9. This would enable a ton of metadata to form around a single tweet and allow for it to collate into one piece of real estate. In fact, Twitter could even add in-bound linking information. - phil baumann

6. ___________________________ - Shawn Farner

Shawn - We'll just skip 6. Unlucky number. :) - phil baumann