Tweet

In recent weeks, I have become rather fond of Twitter. I don't know what took me so long. I can quickly vent my frustrations and read my friends' tweets through TwitterFox or Twitterrific. It's short and sweet. 90% of the time it's entertaining. Sometimes I just don't get it. Sometimes it breaks my heart. Sometimes it saves me money. Sometimes it keeps me in the loop. Sometimes it fails.

Dearest Twitter, you are, however, lacking in features that could make you nearly perfect:

• A way to read all @replies to a tweet. Maybe this feature is there, and I'm missing it? I would like to see the answers someone receives when they ask a question. I asked for web hosting suggestions a few weeks ago, and I'm sure someone else may have benefited from the responses.
  
• A way to @reply to specific tweets. Again, maybe I'm missing this? I hate hitting @reply in Twitterriffic or TwitterFox only to end up looking like I've responded to the latest tweet, when, in actuality, I am replying to one from an hour earlier. I do not like looking like a moron.
  
• A way to edit your last tweet. This morning I was barely awake, and I typed 'their' instead of 'there', and then panicked because someone on the internets may have witnessed a grammar faux pas -- from me! On Saturday, my iPhone's predictive text had me tweet "Hooray for almost dying I'm Sheetz. Wet floor signs - use 'em." when, clearly, I meant "in Sheetz". Again, I do not like looking like a moron!
  
• Tweet via IM. C'mon. You had it working before!
• A way to group those that you follow. I have several people that I follow that I'd love to see their messages right away, and a few that can wait for later because they're easier to follow in context, e.g. one tweet right after another.

So, Twitter, what can we do about this?

Also, somewhat related, Ryan finds it hilarious that I actually used the word tweet, in context, in actual conversation with him last week. If he used Twitter, I'd ask you all to @reply him to death with 'tweet'.