Tracking Twitter
If Twitter’s unreliability hasn’t worn you down, you’ll be happy to know that they have added a new feature called tracking:
You can follow friends on your phone through Twitter, but what about concepts? What if you wanted an update anytime anyone mentioned your name, your favorite band, “NYC,” “earthquake,” or “Steve Jobs?” In real-time? What if you were attending an event and wanted to know who else was there?
If anyone in the public timeline mentions the words “Steve Jobs,” you can have their tweets sent to you by tracking those words.
Turn on tracking: track Steve Jobs
Turn off tracking: untrack Steve Jobs
You can track many things at once. To turn off one, use the untrack feature, to turn them all off:
Turn off all tracked concepts: track off
Get a list of all tracked concepts: track
I am racking my brain to think of a topic that I’m willing to let any moron interrupt my day with and I haven’t been able to think of one. Quit adding features, Twitter, and get the IM and SMS to deliver messages in order and within an hour. Or deliver them at all. I’m sick of missing out on half of everything. We’re trying to have a conversation here.
Via: Twitter / Daniel Johnson, Jr.: Twitter tracking enabled Thanks, Daniel!
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Thanks, Laura, for helping bring it to the masses as well.
Comment by Daniel Johnson, Jr. — October 1, 2007 @ 8:03 am