More coverage of Spymaster
Since Spymaster hit the scene last Friday morning, it has not only taken Twitter by storm, but has raised a number of issues with Twitter’s ability to support these kinds of applications.
If Twitter is to support applications that generate many status messages, people need the ability to filter these messages (block them, put them into separate folders/inboxes, etc.). The question is : Should Twitter be the company that is implementing these filters, or should third party developers that are building applications accessing Twitter’s API, implement these features and use them to differentiate their products?
While there seem to be a lot of people that are complaining about the chattiness of Spymaster, most of those people are NOT playing the game (complaining about the game invites that are sent, originated by players themselves). In fact, the number of complaints to the number of people that are playing and loving the game seems to be quite small.
Meanwhile, Techcrunch has published its 4th story about Spymaster since Friday, this time focusing on how to deal with the invite messages.
Blown Cover: A Couple Ways To Stop Those Spymaster Invite DMs.
What do you think about all of this?
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Julie Wright Said,
June 1, 2009 @ 3:16 pm
Dmitry, I think Spymaster just handed Twitter its revenue model — paying a premium for a filtered experience. I would like to supress Tweets containing #spymaster, for instance, and I’d happily subscribe to a service that could allow me to set these filters vs. having to unfollow people.
Perfect example of a solution looking for a problem; Twitter may have found its answer with Spymaster. – Julie, @juliewright
Steve Cerruti Said,
June 1, 2009 @ 3:29 pm
I have long felt that filtering was missing from Twitter, but I believe your question is backwards. It is not a Twitter vs. Third Party choice, it is a core vs. user interface choice. Filtering obviously belongs at the user interface level for the most part. Therefore it might first be implemented by third parties, secondly be implemented at Twitter.com through third party tools (grease monkey scripts or dabr) and finally natively by Twitter itself.
Another question is how can we set up better than user level filters on tweets to mobile devices (a core function). This functionality could only be achieved by Twitter. I would additionally like to see the ability to set up alerts on key words in any Tweet, or any followed Tweet.
admin Said,
June 1, 2009 @ 3:36 pm
Steve, great point about the mobile devices. Clearly something that needs to be implemented by Twitter.
@DowntownRob Said,
June 1, 2009 @ 3:42 pm
Don’t understand the hoopla w/Spymaster msgs. The user controls the msgs, complain to them or unfollow. Or use the numerous filtering options built into Tweetdeck, Seesmic Desktop, Firefox extensions, etc.
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