I literally was ranting just 2 days ago about the lack of good threaded twitter conversations! Maybe it’s because I’m a gmail addict. Without any way to see and understand various twitter conversations, twitter ends up feeling more like noise and chaos.
Seesmic (a web twitter client) has added the ability to see a basic thread by clicking on the phrase “in reply to” in each tweet.
Seesmic Blog: Seesmic Web Update – Contacts, Conversation Thread and much more.
It’ s not “perfect” since it really only works back through the history of a particular child tweet. What it doesn’t seem to find is any twitter “cousins” to the conversation.
for example, take this twitter made up “conversation”.
@mishagray tweets “I want twitter threads”
@insertwonder replies “@mishagray I want them too”
@ seesmic replies to mishagray “@mishagray over here I have them! http://www.seesmic.com/“
@mishagray replies to seesmic “@seesmic Thanks Seesmic”
but if I click on the “in reply to” link on my last tweet, the tweet from “@insertwonder” would be left out.
Adding threads that would include that @insertwonder tweet is actually much harder and requires more complicated data collection and search. But it’s a start!
Thanks Seesmic!
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