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.
Comments
6 responses to “Twitter Adds Conversation Context – Finally!”