Comments on: Brightkite Updates Pose A Problem On Twitter

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Location-Based Services Can Help Build Community — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 01:51:58 +0000

[...] services are a wildly popular mobile business trend right now. I remember when geo-location status updates were a problem for folks on Twitter. Now everyone’s getting swept in the geo-location wave (or war). That’s a [...]

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How Location-Based Services Can Help Build Better Communities — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:14:52 +0000

By: adeel

adeel — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:23:43 +0000

This isn't about that (at least for me). I don't have a problem with the updates because I don't follow many people that use the service to tweet their location.

By: adeel

adeel — Mon, 26 May 2008 13:23:43 +0000

This isn't about that (at least for me). I don't have a problem with the updates because I don't follow many people that use the service to tweet their location.

By: adeel

adeel — Mon, 26 May 2008 12:23:43 +0000

This isn't about that (at least for me). I don't have a problem with the updates because I don't follow many people that use the service to tweet their location.

By: elliottp

elliottp — Sun, 18 May 2008 19:19:56 +0000

Twitter should have a feature like Flickr where “machine” tags are hidden by default. In other words, allow others to have the option to show or hide automatic twitter posts such as those from bkite, twitpic, and so on.

By: ianbetteridge

ianbetteridge — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:13:26 +0000

Agreed that better filtering would be great… and I suspect that's why people will move off services like Twitter and towards services like FriendFeed, which integrate filtering and pull in other services.

By: Matt Shaulis

Matt Shaulis — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:07:11 +0000

Ian, I promise you I AM looking at it only from the perspective of the way I use Twitter… lol. So you are right there.

As per Twittr, the SMS based mobile location broadcaster… now they are Twitter, a multi faceted micro-blogging service that has enjoyed much more rabid growth than the SMS only solution they once were. They realized that the service they set out with was not satisfactory and would not grow so they adjusted their core, and grew as a result.

Like I said in my comments, if I want that “value” of the locations and all that, then I would gleefully sign up for Brighkite. Also, I tried to be clear in stating that it does not add “value to MY Twitter stream” … not to “the Twitter stream” in general. Which is why I'm more interested in a filter than in seeing Brightkite go away or stop tweeting. I know a good number of folks like Brightkite (and like the integration with Twitter, to boot) and I don't think it would be fair to wish bad things on a service they like just because it might have an annoying impact on my little world. ;)

By: ianbetteridge

ianbetteridge — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:23:00 +0000

It is, at present, less useful than Jaiku in many ways (Jaiky's S60 app makes location sensing automatic, something that Brightkite will do with its iPhone app).

By: Chris Nixon

Chris Nixon — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:49:10 +0000

I'm really going off the BrightKite idea. I looks nice and works well…but why? I can give location info through Twitter and be as specific as I want. Fair enough there is no link to a map…but is that really necessary. It's just additional noise right now.

I'm sure they will make the service more useful in the future as features are added, but for now, I'm out.