Obviously this is not an issue for the big twitter users who have got thousands of followers like Dave, Cali or Jason. For the average users (I wouldn’t even say I’m one of those), who follows 50 people, whom all live in a very similar geographic location, information will be hard to pass. Their information can only be passed on successfully if they have many friend connections (like a friend of a friend and so on). Again this rely’s upon that information to be passed, will it get through? Will they be interested? – It is really hard to say!   

This morning I awoke to the news that Russell Beattie has launched ‘Roomatic’ (via), which groups twitter users together by topics they are wishing to talk about. It overcomes part of the problem by getting ‘unknown friends’ (people who don’t know each, but have the same interests) together, in a single place, talking about what they want to talk about. Which I believe is a great idea in harvesting the power of twitter. Although as an individual, how did I know I wanted to discuss that topic, until it was right under my nose?

This issue relates back to was I was originally saying, I believe Russ to have a good baseline here, he is getting unknown people together to a common interest or discussion (Something twitter currently can not do on its own). I believe he now needs to focus on getting people to discuss a topic they didn’t realise they wanted to discuss. Encouraging more ‘rooms’ to form, but developing a way of getting people to enter these discussions. He makes a good start in outlining a few popular topics, but more could be done. I still haven’t worked out a solution, it is difficult, but it is on my mind.

How did I know I wanted to discuss the latest topic, when your out of the twitter loop.

- Kyle

I’m not happy about, if anything interesting pops up I’ll be the first to write a post, but no mindless dribble before may 9th

You can always catch me on Twitter.

-Kyle

Now I just need an iPhone for their client to work…

Now who said this;

This is something I could see working well on the iphone, users take photos and uploads them when they are in a wifi hotspot (or ques them until they enter one).

Anybody?

-Kyle