So far all the interesting datatoy stuff has centred on the individual. Today things get a little more social.
On your collection page you’ll see to the right a panel displaying other people tracking this title. Click on the avatars to see the individual collection pages, or click on the “Group page for …” link to see the new group page.
One great use for these pages would be for your running club to all track their training by sending tweets like this:
*abdnrunclub 10km training run
These would then be collected into a single page at datatoy.net/group/abdnrunclub. See who trained yesterday, who hasn’t trained for a week, etc…
This is very much a preview release of the groups page - a lot more will be happening on the goups page over the coming weeks.
admin 11:47 am on May 13, 2009 Permalink
A quick note on privacy in light of the release of groups.
Sometime soon you’ll get a HIDE *COLLECTION command to hide your collections individually from the groups and other public areas.
The effect of HIDE *COLLECTION will be to block access to your collection page to everyone but the authenticated twitter account owning the collection. I expect the default will remain public, but hiding will be an option.