Some small improvements to facebook and twitter
I try to limit my time spent going to facebook.com both in length of visit and visits per day, but I still want to know when someone comments on something I post or liked or said somewhere so I have facebook email me whenever someone comments on something I post. Great. However what bugs the crap out of me is that even though I’ve already read their comment in my email, when I go back to facebook.com, I have tons of notification alerts; you know those pesky little red boxes showing how many unread items you have? Bah! Facebook! First, start sending me HTML emails, and then put a little transparent tracking image in them so you know when I’ve opened the email, I’ve read that item! Stop wasting my time!
If you’re anything like me, and you probably are if you are reading this then you probably access twitter from a number of different clients/places. I count four I use daily. 1) Twitter.com 2) Twitter iPhone app, 3) Tweetie on OSX at home and 4) at work. Now, why in the hell is it so difficult to store the id or timestamp of the last tweet I looked at somewhere on twitter servers, make it available via the API and let my clients auto scroll to wherever I was last in my timeline! WHY!?
I do this software development thing for a living, I know nothing is as easy as it seems, especially at the scale of facebook or twitter but these tiny tweaks would go a long way to adding that extra bit of magic to two services I use constantly.
No Comments Yet