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A comment on the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Perhaps if they're really buying Summize, they'll finally get behind the concept of hashtags. They are easy to use and don't require creating anything new. Summize + hashtags takes care of the scenario you describe here. (However, I think that's very separate from the concept of groups. Twitter would be smart to hop on that train; especially with FriendFeed and their "rooms.") – quepol, on July 09, 2008 22:42

Coby replied on June 19, 2008 18:17 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

I would like to understand how to use this better, but I am not happy with the "How it Works" portion. I want to invite people, then be able to address them directly. Once I have addressed them directly, will anyone else of my invites be able to see the message I have sent to 1 person? So confused!!!!!!!!!!! And How do I do a group send out? is this possible yet? – Coby

Todd Jones replied on June 12, 2008 03:23 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

when i think about groups for twitter, i think about sending an update as a kind of direct message to everyone in the group. to make sure they dont miss it.

judge mental replied on June 11, 2008 23:47 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

i mainly just want to be able to let my close circle of friends where i am, what i'm up to. i don't want an acquaintance or a frenemy or whatever knowing what's up and inviting themselves along.

A comment on the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

create a new twitter account for your inner circle and mark the updates as protected. sign up that account with http://grouptweet.com/ . you control who sees the updates (who is a member). – damon, on June 10, 2008 18:33

A comment on the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

For me, it's just a privacy thing. I'd like to let my closest friends know (geographically) where I am, without letting the whole world know where I am. So, I guess, a semi-private communication service; I could do it with multiple recipient SMS outside of Twitter, but I like and am now regularly using the twitter interface (and twitterberry) so it would be convenient to be able to tweet my inner circle in this way. – theclimbergirl, on June 10, 2008 18:10

Cameron Walters replied on June 10, 2008 17:58 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Doesn't that somewhat defeat the purpose of having a public twitter stream? I'm trying to figure out if what people want in the groups feature is a way to not SMS-spam their "further" followers or actually some form of semi-private communications service.

Considering that Twitter sees itself as a "follow-based" or "recipient-based" service when each person chooses how much of the firehose they'd like pointed in their direction, my first conjecture about spamminess seems moot.

theclimbergirl replied on June 10, 2008 15:45 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

I really just would like to be able to identify an "inner circle" of real-life friends/family that I can send tweets to that don't go out to my whole follower list. E.g. if I want to tweet my "inner circle" that I'm doing dinner somewhere but don't want to tell my whole follower list.

A comment on the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Privacy is definitely a must. I use two twitter accounts just because I use it so much for a private group (my band, we all use it via SMS) but I say things I would like to keep within that context. And I use another account via Twitterific just for regular twitter usage. If i could have one account where I could address a private group like this : dg myGroup ... That would be awesome. The conferencing ideas are pretty great as well, maybe a mixture of both features? – SweetMercury, on May 21, 2008 01:40

A comment on the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Hi. You can do this now via a third-party service called GroupTweet. Each of you have your own individual Twitter accounts, and you just need to create an extra Twitter account that serves as the group account. Everyone can post to the group account; everyone can follow the group account. See http://www.grouptweet.com – mdy, on May 20, 2008 12:54

Ericson Smith replied on May 20, 2008 12:34 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

I'm not a crazy web 2.0 kind of guy really. Here, we just want to keep things simple. We're all gung-ho web developers and what we want is:

1. Setup a group of all 12 or 15 of us
2. Any one of us can tweet the group -- there is no leader or followers.

See, how much simpler can it be?

A comment on the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Thanks for your thoughts, Chris. I haven't started using the hash tags yet. I'm not really sure how that works. Perhaps there's a post about it here on Get Satisfaction. :) – Amy Muller, on May 15, 2008 18:40

A comment on the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Well, I don't give out my Twitter credentials lightly, and really, groups would only be marginally useful since it breaks the all-or-nothing paradigm of Twitter. While explicit groups have their place, hashtags have solved a part of the problem and otherwise I just use email. :1 – Chris Messina, on May 15, 2008 18:10

Amy Muller replied on May 15, 2008 17:53 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Ah! Just noticed Chris Messina posted about jazzychad up above quite a while ago. Chris, did you ever try it?

Amy Muller replied on May 15, 2008 17:49 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Interesting @ggroovin -- I'll check it out. Thanks for letting us know!

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@ggroovin replied on May 15, 2008 08:19 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Earlier today I found a 3rd-party site called Twitter Groups that does allow one to set import all your Twitter contacts & set up groups to whom you wish to tweet:
http://jazzychad.net/twgroups

However, it appears you are required to post your tweet from that site. Still, it gets at what folks are talking about needing in some cases above...

A comment on the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

Yes, we still don't have groups, unfortunately. (May 2008) – mdy, on May 09, 2008 18:08

sorenj replied on May 09, 2008 15:03 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

This is an interesting thread, and something that would be very cool (probably more so for the people following me than for me!). I'd like to add to the thoughts of Ross about applying this concept to receiving rather than posting. I started a seperate thread (before I saw this one) here

http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

I'm not sure if it makes sense to continue the conversation here, or over there, so I'll let you all decide. However, I would like a little more discussion on that aspect of this (unless it is just me and Ross that are interested, of course :)

thx, sbj

pix0r replied on May 08, 2008 19:51 to the question "When is Twitter going to get groups?" in Twitter:

There is a 3rd party service www.grouptweet.com, that sort of accomplishes this. The service was offline for a while because people were inadvertently entering their personal twitter account info and thereby publishing all direct messages to the whole world, but it appears to be back online now.

The grouptweet service isn't really "there yet" as far as the functionality I think people would like to see inside twitter itself. You need to create a new account and have people follow it before it really works. It would be nice if there was a way to simply group your own contacts without bothering them to sign up or follow a new user for that purpose.