Marking tweets "read"

another possibility to managing a "read" state would be to provide a "snip" function so you can essentially remove tweets from a group. right now, it is difficult to navigate groups since it isn't clear what has been added. it's done really well on the 'home' list with refreshes, but not in groups.

Have a method to show what tweets I already read. Just like in various twitter clients (twhirl for example), I can mark specific tweets as read (or mark all). That way when I come back I can find the last tweet I read and continue from there.

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Mark tweets as read.

One of the greasemonkey scripts would change the background of read tweets. I also don't mind the twhirl method. But I do prefer the slight color change to background.

I've been using http://tweetlens.com for a while now and there you can mark individual items are read. It is very handy when you have multiple computers that you use for reading tweets. So far I like brizzly, but this missing feature may turn out to be a show-stopper.

The same reading mechanism as google reader would be great for me.
I use multiple computer too.

I second meldo. The same basic idea as google reader as in google reader. Which is exactly what twitgether implemented actually: http://www.twitgether.com/

My friends' tweets matter, and I want to know if I've read them all. Keeping track of which tweets I've seen makes a big difference, and makes Tweetdeck my client of choice so far. Would love to see it here.

I disagree with the idea of marking individual items read/unread. I don't use twitter like I do google reader (if I did, I would just subscribe to all of the twitter RSS feeds *in* google reader).

When I open up twitter, I scan through the most recent set of tweets and click on anything that catches my eye. I don't really worry about reading every single one (this becomes more true as I follow more and more people).

What I think would be much more useful, would be for brizzly to just store a single timestamp for each user that corresponds to the most recent tweet that was at the top of their home page the last time they refreshed the page (or logged in, etc). Then, in each feed (home or by group), brizzly could just display an icon/line/box/etc denoting where that is in your tweet-stream. That way, as I'm scanning through, I'll see immediately "oh, I already looked at these" before I start clicking on links that I already looked at 2 hours ago.

Since storing a timestamp would be much easier than storing individual read/unread statuses, brizzly could (optionally) have a setting "how many timestamps should I remember" and remember more than one. This way, if I accidentally hit refresh before I look at anything, I don't "lose" that timestamp tag.

Just my $0.02 :-)

I can see how this would be a useful feature, but the way I end up viewing tweets, I do so several times a day from my mobile, from the web, etc. Having just a timestamp line wouldn't capture the quick snapshot viewing model that represents my actual usage. Yes, there's the line--but where's the last line? And how much did I read?

By marking tweets as read, I look, I acknowledge that I've read and taken action (mental ack, follow link, save for later, respond, etc.), then move on to other tweets. I don't ever want to look at it again, and I don't feel like wading through all the ones I've already seen just to get to the new stuff.

Truth be told, I don't think this should be a brizzly feature--this should be a feature of the Twitter API. That way when I view stuff in Tweetie, it marks the appropriate ones as "read" and when I view my feed in brizzly, I don't have to look at them again.

@Jeff I think I understand what you're saying -- you want to know not only where you started reading, but where you finished too. I guess that's the difference between our styles of twitter usage, so it's unlikely that one solution will cover both of our needs.

To help me explain what I'm looking for, I've mocked up a (highly contrived) tweetstream. (Note: I'm a coder, not an artist >< )

Yeah - I think TweetDeck has it right. I don't want to have to explicitly mark tweets as read. Rather, simply loading a tweet should mark it as "seen."

That way every time I return to Brizzly I can clearly see which tweets I have not seen before.

It would be great if I could mark my tweets as "read" and also as "Unread" (like I can do with my e-mails or rss feeds on Google Reader). This way it would make more sense to use the 'j' and 'k' shortcuts. I'm sorry if it's already implemented and I didn't notice. If so, can you point to me how it works?

thank you,

Bruno

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Marking tweets as read AND unread.

That's totally the way to do it. Funny; I noted earlier that I wanted the unread message marker, but after transitioning from Tweetie to Tweetdeck I realize that's not at all what I want.

In fact, the last thing I desire is an unread count. They're unmanagable and burdensome. However, Tweetie just loading where I last left off enables me to just resume where I last was, thereby enabling me to choose whether to scroll or read my way to the top.

This is the way: resume the experience exactly where I left off, and leave me markers as to what's happened while I was gone (more tweets on top, new mentions/DM's). But have mercy with me and please do not give me yet another unread count (contrary to what I asked for a few days back...)

Marcus Westin

Instead of "marking it as read" consider just the text changing from BOLD to Regular so users can differentiate between a read tweet and an unread tweet