TheSocialNetworker » contributor http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com Candid commentary on social media Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:01:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 ©Chris Miller (IdoNotes http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/?feed=podcast social@thesocialnetworker.com (Chris Miller (IdoNotes) social@thesocialnetworker.com(Chris Miller (IdoNotes) 1440 site reviews, social networking, social media, screencasts Candid commentary on social media, RSS and social networking. Site reviews of the new, top and odd social networking sites. All with interviews of the people that invent and run the sites themselves. Chris Miller (IdoNotes Chris Miller (IdoNotes social@thesocialnetworker.com No no http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/tsnlogo.jpg TheSocialNetworker http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com 144 144 Does the new Twitter Contributor feature make a difference? No http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index.php/2009/12/16/does-the-new-twitter-contributor-feature-make-a-difference-no/ http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/index.php/2009/12/16/does-the-new-twitter-contributor-feature-make-a-difference-no/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:59:37 +0000 Chris Miller http://blog.thesocialnetworker.com/?p=141 Mashable caught the first screenshots of the new Contributors feature allowing a pseudo dashboard for multiple people to post to a single account with varying rights.  The article does a good description of the feature sets.

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Caption courtesy Mashable posting

My opinion is that Twitter is too late to the game in the corporate space allowing third-party developers to overtake this area quite some time ago.  The web interface that Twitter offers by default, with a new contributor toolbar or not, is not condusive to performing long term work and management in the Twitter stream.  Missing is a wide array of tools needed to watch, forward, queue and otherwise control a corporate contributor toolset.

Twitter would have better luck purchasing one of the third-party developers like TweetFunnel, TweetRiver or Cotweet that have built a service, with subscribers, around this idea with more advanced tools and controls.

Twitter has slacked in making moves to purchase some of the add-on tools that have been created and with some remarkable success.   This is purely a business decision and move that should have occurred some time ago to strengthen Twitter as a corporate tool and provide immediate means to monetize.  I cannot see any company paying for this type of basic interface when other and better alternatives exist.

Disclosure: While I certainly don’t make any of these tools, the above links to the review site EverythingTwitter is also a site owned by me.  They are not paid postings or reviews and we often slam them.

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