A set of tweets in a language I don’t understand made me think of about the problem of twitter groups. Many a when I tweet I face the problem that I am going to annoy my followers who are not interested in certain topics such as F1, Cricket or Web2 technologies. Since we have been waiting for long about Twitter groups, we have come up with hashtags and clients such as Tweetdeck to resolve most of the problems. But last month twitter turned on the feature where a ‘reply’ would be visible on your timeline only if your follow the person who the ‘reply’ is addressed to. So, here is the idea how we can harness that to simulate group feature.
I will demonstrate this idea with an example: I am interested in formula1 and own the account ‘fakeF1’. People, who need to see tweets from me about F1, should follow ‘fakeF1’ because whenever I want to post a tweet, I would be replying to ‘fakeF1’. So, none of my followers who are not interested in F1 will get my F1 related posts till them come to my specific page (which is very rare). For people who do not follow me but just ‘fakeF1’ should put a search filter in their clients to get all the details about F1. We can have handles like CricketTweets, WCT20, OnlyFootball, GeekTalk etc.
Only one person has to create a dummy twitter id and it would resolve problems of many. I believe in wisdom of crowds and think this id can work brilliantly.
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