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

QUOTING...However, I'd argue there's fewer users who are interested in "Let me send messages to everyone that's at this place I'm at" and more who are into "Let me tell my friends but not my co-workers what I'm up to."

However, I'd argue there's fewer users who are interested in "Let me send messages to everyone that's at this place I'm at" and more who are into "Let me tell my friends but not my co-workers what I'm up to." – GS, on September 26, 2008 22:19

chr4004 replied on July 17, 2008 09:06 to the idea "groups/channels" in Twitter:

I thought about this, too. Imagine a conference which has its own Twitter group. You join the group for the time the conference is held. You automatically follow everybody in this group and opt-in to let everybody else follow you. When the conference is over you un-follow the group and un-follow everybody else in this group except people you followed explicitly like your friends (who may have joined also this conference).
Twitter could even monetize this. Let's say you pay above a certain amount of people a group can contain.

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 18:31 to the idea "groups/channels" in Twitter:

Would it be possible to start up a group with a broadcast which anyone can read and then set it up so questions can be privately sent to the moderator of the group without everyone else seeing their responses? Or when you send a response out to the moderator, will everyone see it or can you control this?

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

cherie replied on June 19, 2008 16:33 to the question "Creating Twitter Groups" in Twitter:

Hi.

I'm confused. This didn't answer my question. I want to create a Twitter group for my job where everyone will automatically be connected and see what everyone is doing (and hopefully include some sort of feed on the main page of our intranet). Is this possible?

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.

Winks replied on June 10, 2008 03:00 to the idea "groups/channels" in Twitter:

Damn, I also thought that groups and channels are needed on twitter to improve the signal to noise ratio. I'd like to get some of my fellow technology students on a channel to bounce around innovations that we are working on. This could be an ideal medium for this kind of random sharing on a single topic or for a group of related people. Just make sure the group search mechanism is better than what facebook has. When searching for groups there I usually get 500+ (which is a useless result). Searching by geographic location might be nice. Perhaps allowing the group members to add tags that are searchable as well.

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sjwhiddon replied on May 23, 2008 18:37 to the idea "groups/channels" in Twitter:

I think this is a great idea. Similar to the way other social networking pages and other sites (flickr, etc.) would allow people to join into groups where discussion pertains to their interests. There's already CNN and the like on Twitter. Thinking something like "Pets" where people who are ridiculously into discussing their pets could all unite and share their own conversations without having to individually locate and follow individual people. Maybe have "group sponsors" or "moderators" who could regulate their group (again, the way Flickr allows you to set up groups).

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