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Sarah Harrison replied on May 12, 2008 22:41 to the question "Consolidate check in and notes" in Brightkite:

You can do this with dodgeball. You SMS @place ! message

Couldn't BK implement some shortcut like that?

Sarah Harrison marked one of mdy's replies in Twitter as useful. mdy replied to the idea "Opt-out of notification SMS messages for ON and OFF".

A comment on the idea "Opt-out of notification SMS messages for ON and OFF" in Twitter:

Oh this makes sense! I was wondering what that homepage sidebar setting did. I hope this works, because it's so smart! Thanks! – Sarah Harrison, on May 12, 2008 18:32

Sarah Harrison started following the idea "Starting groups" in Brightkite.

Sarah Harrison started following the question "Consolidate check in and notes" in Brightkite.

Sarah Harrison replied on May 12, 2008 17:34 to the question "Consolidate check in and notes" in Brightkite:

You could tell it not to post your check-ins to Twitter.

I would like to be able to do this as well, though, just to save text messages and time.

Sarah Harrison shared an idea in Twitter on May 12, 2008 17:18:

Opt-out of notification SMS messages for ON and OFF

I would love to opt out of the notification message that is sent via SMS when I turn SMS notifications "off" (and even "on" for that matter.) It is really redundant once you've been using Twitter for over a year and you turn notifications on and off once or twice a day.

I'm trying to save on text messages during the day so I can avoid moving to an unlimited plan. I turn it off when I'm in front of a computer so I can have them on via IM, and these additional notifications really add up.

Sarah Harrison replied on May 12, 2008 16:38 to the question "RSS feed for syndication" in Brightkite:

Does the RSS work with Privacy settings, or is everything revealed no matter how you have your prefs set?

Sarah Harrison reported a problem in Twitter on April 23, 2008 19:14:

SMS confirmation for "off username" is the same as "leave username"

This is a small issue, but I've noticed that when you SMS "off username" the confirmation message you get back says "You've left username's updates. Send 'get username' anytime to get username's latest update, 'follow username' to follow again."

This is incorrect, this is the same message you see when you text "leave username"

Leaving someone is not the same as turning their notifications off.

Sarah Harrison started following the idea ""I'm feeling lucky" feature for business checkins" in Brightkite.

Sarah Harrison replied on April 21, 2008 18:31 to the idea ""I'm feeling lucky" feature for business checkins" in Brightkite:

I like this idea, because sometimes you know the first result you'll get back is going to be the right one. The more we use the service, the more we'll want to be able to shortcut to the first search result, especially since texting in the business name is much easier than the address.

Consider this example:
Yesterday I went to a restaurant/bar in Seattle called Cyclops. I know it's the only one with a name like that. I texted ?Cyclops to Brightkite. The first result was, of course, the right one. The second result was "Ace Hotel" and the third was "Kicks Hobby Japan" -- neither of those having any remote possibility of being a match. I would much rather bank on the first result being the right one than go through a needless extra step to see meaningless non-matches.

I assume there will be a confirmation message, so if we see that it chose the wrong one, we can always just send another text with the correct info. I don't see a big need to delete an accidental entry.

Sarah Harrison replied on April 18, 2008 20:01 to the discussion "How would you prefer to report Twitter spam?" in Twitter:

I am less interested in reporting spam than I am in identifying someone as a spammer as quickly as possible. If you haven't seen Merlin Mann's post at http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/3137... check it out to see some good ideas on what statistics can be used to identify someone as a spammer.

If the email that came to me said "so and so is now following you. They have been using Twitter since... Follow x people and have x followers... " Stuff like that. Maybe even some of the other stats like %age of total posts that are “@” responses and %age of total posts that include a link, especially if most of the links are to the same site.

If this info is in the email itself, I don't have to click to visit their profile at all. I simply delete the email. (I doubt I would go through the trouble of reporting them at all. Sorry.)

Lately the amount of Twitter follow request emails I've gotten has been overwhelming, so I've just turned the email notification feature off. If the email could be more informative, cutting out the step of going to the person's profile to see if I want to follow them back, or if they're a spammer, I would be more inclined to keep it on and look at the emails.

Sarah

Sarah Harrison started following the question "How does the "Nearby notifications" feature work?" in Brightkite.

Sarah Harrison replied on April 18, 2008 01:20 to the idea "Human readable locations - Name and/or cross-street" in Brightkite:

Hmmm, I thought I tried that. Anyway, shouldn't Seattle be implied, or a default, if I've recently checked in from there?

Sarah Harrison replied on April 18, 2008 00:39 to the idea "Human readable locations - Name and/or cross-street" in Brightkite:

I was trying to check in at 3rd & Madison, in Seattle. Just said "didn't understand your request" -- i can look up the specific error if needed.

Sarah Harrison shared an idea in Brightkite on April 17, 2008 22:16:

Human readable locations - Name and/or cross-street

It would be great to be able to check in from a cross-street. Some times I don't know the exact address, and even so, it's impossible to navigate from just an address without a cross street anyway.

A notification like "Sarah is at Starbucks on 3rd and Madison" is much more useful than "Sarah is at 1019 3rd Ave"

Sarah Harrison shared an idea in Brightkite on April 17, 2008 00:36:

Import Twitters *into* BrightKite notes?

Would it be crazy to import Twitters you send after checking in to a place as notes on that place (in the what's going on area)?

Sarah Harrison started following the idea "Custom alias for locations" in Brightkite.

Sarah Harrison started following the idea "Custom alias for locations" in Brightkite.

Sarah Harrison reported a problem in Twitter on February 12, 2008 22:29:

What's with all the outages and dropped Tweets?

Throughout the day, Twitter comes and goes. Some tweets get through, some don't. You might see an error, you might not. Even when the site appears to be functioning, you find out later you missed a friend's tweet. Additionally, SMS notifications are just as unreliable. Some come through, some don't. People are missing direct messages, only getting some of them. It's all very random. What is going on?