An Open Twitter Request
22 Mar 2007 (Thu)
[Submitted this request, slightly edited, to Twitter this morning:]
This is what I DID:
I added another username, hoping to have TWO CHANNELS (or usernames) on the SAME PHONE LINE: One for business subscribers and one for friends/fans/family.
This is what I EXPECTED to happen:
I truly hope that Twitter would give TWO CHANNELS on the SAME PHONE LINE: One for business subscribers and one for friends/fans/family. Possibility: Use prefixes to separate business from personal. E.g. [BIZ] for business and [PERS] for personal.
This is what ACTUALLY happened:
The system informed me that the phone line has already been used by another username. I’m a rather private person. I also hope to receive only business tweets from many of the people that I’m following. But many of them are getting too personal, sending out many tweets that are useless/meaningless (er, to me).
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Posted by J.K. in Design, Possibilities, Technology | blog reactions | |
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:07 am
Don’t understand your idea.
You mean allow 1 phone to have 2 user id?
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:25 am
Yes, DK. My original idea was to allow 2 usernames to use the same phone line. On second thoughts, could be neater to have one username one phone but multiple channels (just like RSS feeds). Then different users can choose to subscribe (or follow) one or more channels (or feeds).
What do you think?
March 24th, 2007 at 7:45 am
Received a reply from Twitter Support: “Thanks for your email. We only allow one phone number per account, but having more than one profile per number is a great idea; I’ll share it with the team. We appreciate your feedback!”
Wonderful! Hope the team accepts this idea.