Features
- Store settings so that the client can be run on any machine
- requires: A custom server with the same twitter login credentials
- Separate reply-threads from global-posts, and filter conversations between people you don't know.
Problems to fix
Twitter Clients and Why They Suck (good blog post)
- Tweets coming in while I'm scrolled down, trying to catch up.
- solution: Catch-up view?
- How should tweet-frequency be handled? (Some people tweet a lot, but they have some great posts occasionally.)
- solution: The root of the problem is that people don't know when to shut up because people don't tell 'em. Perhaps anonymous feedback? (i.e. the "I like this" feedback shows up on their view, but without names)
- No way to do this: view a user's profile + tweets, click on an @name in one of the posts, then going back to the original profile (to continue reading the tweets).
Resources
SideLine - Twitter trends monitor (AIR)
A good article summarizing some use cases and the existing tools.
WeFollow (a twitter directory)
MyTweeple (organize your twitter "friends")
