Microblogging
20 Feb 2016Manton Reece has been working on an app/business/service that I think is really in the “own your own Twitter” space. Basically, why not own your own work, rather than just pushing it into Twitter.
It’s something I’ve thought about in the past. If I could post to Twitter and push those to my blog at the same time, it’d give me a full accounting for most of what I do on line (suck in Instagram, and you probably get the totality of it).
I’m interested to see what he comes up with. I think, often, that my Tweets only make sense in the context of the moment. A Celtics game or a concert, or whatever is happening on TV. Some are of the moment in a world sense, and make more sense standing alone.
For example,
My @serial experience so far…
Pre Ayn Rand reference: I completely get it. He seems well intentioned.Post Rand reference: Fuck that guy
— Ryan Toohil (@ryant) February 19, 2016
Serial is pretty popular, so that stands up on its own alright (and, for fun, go search Bergdahl and Rand on Twitter. It’s amazing.)
This tweet, however,
That’s the sort of game a contender wins.
— Ryan Toohil (@ryant) February 11, 2016
only makes sense when you realize I was at the Celtics/Clippers game before the All Star break, that the Cs pulled out in overtime.
If you push your tweets/microposts to your blog, even if it’s within the context of your other tweets/posts, can you maintain that context of the moment? I’m not sure.
It’d be amazing if, whether via an app or later inside of your blogging applicaiton, you could add that context. If I could post from an app, that knows my location, and can determine I’m at the Celtics game, and add enough meta-data to that tweet to put it in the context of “Posted from the TD Garden during the Celtics victory over the Clippers”, that’d be pretty amazing.
And it’s not really out of reach today. That tweet could have had geo-data, which would put me at the Garden, during the time the game was going on. I mentioned “game”, which likely narrows the context down even further. If an app/web service could even let me go through my tweets later, tag them with context, and have that flow to my site, that would be a pretty amazingly wonderful service.