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Throttling of cross-posts
I love Brightkite's ability to cross-post to Twitter. It allows me to start using Brightkite with little or no additional effort even though other people I know aren't using it yet. I do have one concern though. The current controls for what gets propagated from Brightkite to Twitter don't quite mirror my own preferences. If I sent as much as I'd like to Brightkite, I'd end up spamming my Twitter friends.
I have two ideas for dealing with the problem. First is per-type throttling-- no more than N messages of a given type for each M minutes (or hours). Or just restrict N to 1. That is, my first photo (or whatever) will be Twittered, but then no more for some number of hours.
The second approach would be to have some syntax for exceptions in crossposting. Eg, normally I want my photos crossposted to Twitter, but not this one I am sending right now. Normally I don't want my checkins crossposted, but I'll make an exception for my current location.
Make sense?
I have two ideas for dealing with the problem. First is per-type throttling-- no more than N messages of a given type for each M minutes (or hours). Or just restrict N to 1. That is, my first photo (or whatever) will be Twittered, but then no more for some number of hours.
The second approach would be to have some syntax for exceptions in crossposting. Eg, normally I want my photos crossposted to Twitter, but not this one I am sending right now. Normally I don't want my checkins crossposted, but I'll make an exception for my current location.
Make sense?
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Inappropriate?I like the idea, but I wonder if there needs to be a quality expressed along with some of these posts to be able to filter differences. This gets even more important when location is updated on the fly by location services available on the devices (gps fix or whatever). Quality could be derived from proximity, too. If you're on the other end of the planet, I may not care about your actions as much as when you're in my immediate vicinity.
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This is one of the best points
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That's an interesting idea, but much trickier than what I'm suggesting. Remember that this isn't about what appears on Brightkite itself but rather what is propagated to Twitter. Within it's own domain, Brightkite can taylor displays to individual users based on various criteria. In the Twitter domain, all of my followers see the same thing. The question of which of my actions is relevant to you is moot, because there is no way to determine who you are. Or put another way, "you" refers to the collection of all my Twitter followers, and lacks a single location.
I'd simply like some finer control over what is sent to Twitter than the all-or-nothing currently provided. I like the manual override best, but if numerical throttling is easier to implement, that's fine too.
