Geir Arne Brevik, August 9 2007:
An idea for Twitter: Non-obtrusive microblogging
I browsed through my ideas-notes tonight, and found one from April 2006 that was close enough to Twitter to remind me that I should make more of my ideas into reality (A bit besides the point, but anyway: Twitter launched in March 2006, so I might have read about it, but didn’t sign up there until December ’06). Oh well. The idea was something like Twitter without the social aspect. Or, Twitter with an overdose of the del.icio.us-lession. It went something like this:
- SMS service that let you text limited amounts of text to a web service
- Primary purpose: Personal note-taking
- API that lets you export your notes, maybe filtered with tags, to show on your own webpage
- So simple, that it might be used for just about anything.
I can do these things with Twitter, but not without making all kinds of clients go off everywhere. While my hobby of making up hopeless TV-concepts might be fun for me, I don’t want to send an SMS about each one of them to all my friends. So what I want is a way to send a private note to my own Twitter account, possibly with privacy options. Like this for a public note, not to be sent to followers:
N Tv-idea: Osbournes-esque reality show with Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker from L.A. Law
And this for a private note, just for me to consume:
P I don’t need yet another wireless Apple keyboard, even if the new one is slimmer.
So there you go, Twitter: My idea. Hope you can implement it, ‘cause I know I won’t.
