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  • problem

    tim reported a problem in TweetLater on January 31, 2009 10:23:

    tim
    Make links in alert emails point to tweetlater, not twitter
    I separately suggested that you should include a 'follow' link in alert emails.

    Now I've discovered something problematic. When I click on the name of a twitter user in the alert, the link goes to twitter.com/them. At first sight, this seems intuitve.

    But think about it. TweetLater includes multiple-account functionality, so I don't necessarily want to look at them using the single twitter account that will come up because of the twitter cookie.

    What I really want is to be able to act on this person (maybe follow, message etc) with one of the multiple accounts I've listed with you.

    Conclusion: the link on the person's name should go to a tweetlater page that lets me choose which account to use to follow this person, message them or whatever.
  • question

    tim asked a question in TweetLater on January 31, 2009 10:12:

    tim
    How to make the alert digest perfect
    The Alert digest is great. Here's what it needs to be perfect.

    There's no Follow link in the list of actions. If I see a tweet matching an alert, I'd like to be able to follow someone for a while before decding whether to message them or reply to their tweet.

    Of course you have autofollow but that's a much more blunt instrument.
  • idea

    tim shared an idea in TweetLater on January 31, 2009 10:09:

    tim
    Smarter Distribute functionality -- this will be your killer app
    Dewald, I've got a feature suggestion that I think could make TweetLater into a killer service.

    As I see it, the key use of the service isn't to advance-tweet a single message (unless you're a murderer trying to construct a fake alibi), it's to tweetlater a number of messages for eg when you're away on vacation and don't want your Twitter followers to feel neglected.

    To do this, the timing of tweets needs to look natural, but the current UI of the Distribute doesn't make this easy.

    Suppose I write half a dozen tweets to fill my absent week. What you offer is the ability to run them at specified intervals. But if I want them to go out daily, then I have to count the number I've written, and then choose to Distribute over eg six days. If I then add further tweet and re Distribute, then I've got seven tweets spread over six days, with some going out at 3am. I've tried to fix this by amending the frequency, but it just doesn't work.

    The ideal thing would be this:

    Distribute lets you choose a frequency (eg twice a day, once a day etc), and then sends out the tweets at approximately *but not exactly* those intervals, so eg varying them by up to 30 minutes in each direction.

    When you then come back and add more, there's also a one-click button whose effect is to add this new tweet to the distribution list and apply the future distribution rule to it.

    It's inconvenient to have the default being to send out the tweet right now; I've already mistakenly done it twice. I'm sure you're keen to make people use you as their primary mechanism, but I don't think this makes sense.