Gazoobee":17wmux6a said:
Tweets are meant to be light, lighter than IM, unidirectional, and gone forever right after they are tweeted. The whole concept of storing, cataloguing and reviewing or saving past tweets goes against *everything* Twitter was originally supposed to be.
Says who? The great thing about Twitter is that it can be whatever you want it to be. It's a platform, with the functionality extended by the apps around it. For some, it is a ephemeral messaging service. Others, such as myself, do want the ability to go back in time. Browsing your own history is often surprising. It can be useful, too. There are several times when I've had to look up a link I had tweeted, and the only way to do it was go through the history I had collected with my own purpose-built program.
What Twitter is about is letting the community decide what features it wants. Evan Williams himself has said as much:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/evan_ ... users.html
(BTW, I went into my Twitter history to get that link.)
