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My Thoughts on how Twitter could be Improved

By nipper

This was originally on my Tumblr blog…but I thought I’d move it here to make it more visible (and commentable). I thought that I?d expand upon my earlier tweet (right) with a related ?what I think Twitter needs?. Twitter is a river with a waterfall. The base of the waterfall represents the present, the downstream river represents the past. All of your followers are standing at the base of the waterfall, watching your tweets (and everyone else?s tweets) float by. They can walk downstream to see some of the older tweets, but most don?t. They only see what is right in front of them. Sure, someone might pick up your tweet from downstream and throw it back to the waterfall (retweet), but most of the time, if a follower isn?t there?they miss what you said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).