What do you think of "a tiny thread?" I think it's a brilliant idea.... (@ahmednaguib) - 97 messages
- sadekhm →
- It's too tiny :D but yeah .. Loving this idea
- ahmednaguib →
- "a tiny thread" is too tiny, you think? :P
- Cyberfrancis →
- Jarrlll :)
- marcinrosinski →
- I like this idea
- cshirky →
- yeah, tinythread is too tiny like tags were too simple and tweets were too short. give it some time for people to play with compression
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- which also makes me wonder about length: In May of that year, as news that US beef would return to the Korean market, Korean citizens began staging public protests, turning out en masse in Cheonggyecheon, an enormous park in Seoul. The protests, the
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- builtbydave →
- less is more, sometimes. This might be one of those times...
- marshallmanson →
- I'm liking this. It's a pleasant blend of the best of twitter (brevity) and the best of FriendFeed (conversation)
- EvidenceMatters →
- I don't like the tweeting to general timeline for tinythread rather than restricting to other discussants (?).
- thewavingcat →
- So the point is to take threats off twitter and continue them here? Or will they be fed back to Twitter? (Can't see any RSS feeds?)
- juhavantzelfde →
- My English is not so good. What is the small danger about this service?
- ErikJonker →
- Good start and yes, if there was an RSS feed for each thread, it would really be great !
- Quesada →
- but how does it update? automatically? or do I need to refresh?
- AnalogC →
- Pretty brilliant. What happens to comments from users with protected accounts? Private person, pls comment so we can see.
- laikas →
- IMHO this tiny thread is getting rather big
- sshingler →
- interesting idea -- like it :)
- builtbydave →
- Does this send a tweet on every comment, or just first? test.
- laikas →
- pity, that just the tiny thread name is send to twitter and not the message. Seems pretty annoying for followers if you use it more than once.
- nezmar →
- I agree with @ErikJonker rss feeds for threads would be a nice addition.
- sshingler →
- yep, i think the tweet should be the message, not the thread title
- slonob →
- I love the tiny thread. Great idea. Of course it's not threaded but flat.
- laikas →
- but luckily tweets are send just once, not on every comment (@builtbydave)
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- would like to see other comments appearing while typing (just like when chatting)
- sshingler →
- seems like it only tweets your first message
- AnalogC →
- If you look @ cshirky's timeline, it says the title of each thread in the twitter mssg. Could be shorter though, since the words tiny thread are in the mssg and the url.
- sshingler →
- yeh, shouldn't need to refresh the page
- AnalogC →
- Tweeting each thread one joins seems like a good way to keep people from over participating in every convo
- laikas →
- What I like: discussions can be saved (like in Friendfeed)
- sshingler →
- @laikas, how can you save a discussion?
- pressearbeit →
- Love it. Pure. Brings dialogue to streaming web without Zuckerberg's toys
- JayGreasley →
- another one trying out a.tinythread Kinda like it but not sure why. It's like #tag based searches with a title I guess
- yeebase_t3n →
- we like it!
- amcunningham →
- @sshingler you can save by bookmarking the page eg delicious
- leongreen →
- Heh this is great!
- sshingler →
- @amcunningham - right yep good idea, cool
- laikas →
- that's what I meant @sshingler -it has a web address - thnx @amcunningham
- kahlillechelt →
- This is really really cool.
- pressearbeit →
- how can i reach older threads? It only shows 10...
- ipostfirst →
- timestamps needed
- laikas →
- @pressearbeit - i also wondered. At least you can look at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22I+joined+a+thread%22 - also nice to see a face of all posters but not ideal. Need a searchable archive
- SyntaXKilla →
- hm... it's really tiny :-o
- timeblind →
- twitter has rarely been real conversations, more just punch lines and fake convos (we know everybody is watching us). I've wanted threads and > 140
- pressearbeit →
- @laikas sure. ur right. didn't realize, that we are on the twitter platform somehow - for the root stuff (topics and login). This really is very smart!
- timeblind →
- do @ replies get DM'd to the target person ? otherwise you may not know somebody responded to you unless you come back
- micaelwidell →
- There happens to exist a similiar service but with nicer GUI at http://3ad.at **
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- Sorry for spamming :)
- DarkBls →
- I'm kinda lost there
- josiefraser →
- I like tinythread's interface a lot. Still mourning wastage of Jaiku though.
- emlynoregan →
- Yes, nice, makes sense. Good idea.
- agent_x →
- I am not sure yet what this is really meant to do??
- pstuifzand →
- @agent_x It's whatever you want it to be. Just like twitter is.
- djg →
- If this wasn't created by the founder of Delicious (which is awesome), would anyone think this is neat?
- gniola →
- maybe
- arnthorsnaer →
- can we just get google wave already
- nlehuen →
- Why try to fix Twitter when Friendfeed already exists ?
- discipleLoveJas →
- ...Ok...not completely sure what this is. like a wanabe twitter?
- gr8rahul →
- worth a try
- pstuifzand →
- @nlehuen FriendFeed has been bought by Facebook, not sure how that will pan out.
- mathaix →
- yes really liking http://a.tinythread.com/badFsozGRY
- pstuifzand →
- @discipleLoveJas Comments on a tweet that was started here.
- mahaniok →
- It is very unclear for the start how to use it - because "login" link is too far to the right, not visible at all
- tibbetts →
- Tinythread is interesting, but still inferior to zephyr. Glad to see people are trying.
- allyweston →
- incredible!!
- nlehuen →
- @pstuifzand I heard about the FB / FF deal, but I can't see why FB would kill FF.
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- @pstuifzand In any case, trying to recreate an under-featured, not real-time, not fully-threaded version of Friendfeed on Twitter doesn't look like a solution to me.
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- @pstuifzand But, I must say that if you put the competition aside, tinythread is a neat idea, I wish I had it when I worked on www.tweetraise.com
- nelhage →
- It seems to be missing the key Twitter/Zephyr feature of subscriptions not consuming UI space.
- pstuifzand →
- @nlehuen Of course FriendFeed isn't threaded. And yes, TinyThread could use some real-time speed.
- nlehuen →
- @pstuifzand That's a pity FriendFeed is not threaded, and a pity too that TinyThread isn't either... It would save us from writing @nlehuen, @pstuifzand etc.
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- @pstuifzand but I guess implementing a real-time nested set algorithm is not really easy, especially if running on Google App Engine
- 6pt →
- hmmm interesting
- discipleLoveJas →
- Ahh...i see thanx @pstuifzand idk pretty kool. It's getting bigger quickly too.
- pstuifzand →
- @nlehuen I like that it's not threaded. Maybe there needs to be a way to easily take a conversation to a new thread.
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- I'm also not sure if the idea was that the threads would get as big is this.
- nlehuen →
- @stuifzand Threading is awful when following a conversation in real time, very useful when catching up what was said before. I wonder how Google Wave handles this.
- frankiecarl →
- How do I find more threads-it cannot just be 10 and I am seeing the selection change over time
- pstuifzand →
- You could use twitter search to find more threads.
- jdp23 →
- i'd like it better if it tweeted my comment here (not just a link to tinythread that looks like spam)
- michael_elliott →
- pretty neat! looking to see what happens next after i submit...
- 5800world →
- I love the idea, think it needs some real conversation on here though, at the moment its full of people like me just testing it!
- michael_elliott →
- ok i agree with @jdp23 . i hate it when something auto sends something i did not say.
- pstuifzand →
- But it does say it tweets "we will send a tweet to your stream to notify your followers!"
- philipmcdermott →
- I like it. Tweetie attempts tp thread tweets sometimes but fails because there's obviously not enough info with using an extra DB...
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- ...like tinythread does :)
- gnuchu →
- not sure of the real aplication of it but looks good
- philipmcdermott →
- It's not quite what I thought it was. Was hoping it used tweets for data then recorded metadata for the threading.
- nlehuen →
- @philipmcdermott funny thing is, Twitter has room for those threading meta-data (and for favorites too) in its API, but doesn't properly use them !
- IPSODESIGN →
- This is a real crowd pleaser!
- zhov →
- Not that I'm anyone to judge, but it feels more like IRC than Zephyr.
- quinnnorton →
- Needs tagging. *ducks*
- samharrelson →
- reminds me of FriendFeed meeting Wave and having a beautiful plain text baby. i love it.
- mickwinter →
- great for public conversation. What about small private groups? Not so much for privacy, actually, as to keep the number of participants down to a minimum.
- DarkBls →
- Is a.tinythread really useful ?
- CaptainBitmap →
- It's clean and neat like WebCrossing/Guardian Unlimited Talk. I'm glad it's not threaded.
- adamhorvath2 →
- Looks good
- ChrisCinelli →
- Not sure why I need to login by Twitter... actually that box "send to twitter" says a lot about virality...
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