Monday, March 23rd, 2009...6:18 pm
Twitter Adds Conversation Context – Finally!
One of the things I have always hated about Twitter has been its lack of usability for keeping the conversations within their context. Even if you follow all the people whose conversation you are trying to read, doing this has been a royal pain in the ass. If you follow a bunch of people like a few hundred, tracking anybody’s conversations was a totally undoable task. This made me think of Twitter as an egocentric place where everybody only hears themselves.
Well not any longer! I was really happy when I spotted this bit in Twitter’s search results:
This is only possible in Twitter Search so far but I do think this is a great leap forward – after all Twitter HAS to become more user friendly if it wants a bigger piece of the search pie.
Infact I find this feature so useful that I decided it was worth my while to make a Ubiquity command for Twitter search – grab your updated feed along with my other Ubiquity custom commands if you’re not yet subscribed for it to auto-renew.
6 Comments
March 24th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Actually, this has existed for probably a year now. It was a feature from back when Twitter Search was Summize!
March 24th, 2009 at 10:30 am
And this is what SimplyTweet does on the iPhone – http://twitpic.com/2dtkn. I’m the developer.
March 24th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Thanks! Now just can’t wait for this to be integrated into Twhirl or Tweetdeck, let alone TwitterBerry or TinyTwitter.
Cheers!
March 24th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
There’s a greasemonkey script that works like this for twitter called “Nested Twitter Replies”. It can be found at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/30598
Works pretty well.
March 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Interesting – I have never come across it in actual Twitter Search, maybe it just took them a while to transfer this feature?
March 26th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
It’s been there for a long time. Maybe it wasn’t that obvious because most clients didn’t set the reply id back then, so the link seldom appeared.