Science for SEO: Things I'd like for xmas from Twitter

November 17, 2008

Things I'd like for xmas from Twitter

I use Twitter daily and think it's great for businesses as well. Customer service is vastly improved and product information can be disseminated to those interested. I use it as a personal account and like to follow people with the same interests, because that way I can get really interesting information from them, and hopefully they can get some from me too. Twitter is pretty basic though, which is good, but I wish there were a few more features that would make my experience and account management a bit better.

Putting followers into categories (SEO, Web 2.0, yogis...) - there is "GroupTweet" but you have to ask everyone you want in each to join it. Laborious.
Having the "search for people" tool actually work and not be out of service every time I try to use it
Threads for replies (I can't always remember what the reply was about)
Categorise users by "not following", "new", "long-timers"...
Recommendations for people who I might be interested in following
A filter for spam and fakes

There are external tools who allow you to do some of these things. I think it would be nice to have it all in Twitter though.

For a good list of Twitter tools, see the Seoptimise list.