There seems to be a lot of talk from twitter commentators about twitter’s new facility to view another user’s timeline
For example, from techrunch:
Twitter has just rolled out a nifty little feature. Now on anyone’s profile, when click on the “Following” link, you’ll be able to see exactly how they see Twitter. In other words, you can see the same timeline of tweets that they see when they’re looking at their main feed.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/26/now-you-can-see-twitter-the-way-i-see-twitter/
However, I have not seen nearly as much coverage of another “innovation” by Tweetdeck, recently acquired by twitter, that allows you to quickly assume the timeline conversation of another user.
Added “User Timeline List” feature. Accessed from the menu button on any Twitter profile page, this will create a private Twitter list based on all the people (up to 500) that the user follows, allowing you to “be” that person…sort of 🙂
May 27, 2011
Interesting points made in a private conversation. It is not actually wrong, but strips one more layer of privacy. Who does this help, really?