Publishing your movements with Twitter + Twitter Groups?

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

One of my projects is CamerAware, which is a Safety Camera alerting application that also doubles as a personal tracker for recording and mapping journeys in real time.

I've now updated it so that I when I start and end a journey, it posts to Twitter - as you can see here - http://www.twitter.com/PaulatMoDaCoCA

Neat... but you probably want to control who you give access to! :)

This does however raise the interesting question of multiple accounts. I've set up another account here for this purpose specifically, using a different email address. It would be useful if we could have multiple accounts, or even better, 'groups' that we could send to rather than everyone all the time.

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[Guest nickcornaglia]

CamerAware is a great example of how programs can utilize Twitter.

I posted before how twitter could be many things to different people.

I think Twitter, at least on the face of things, is just focusing on the social aspects of twitter. But some may want to use it privately for family and business and others to get noticed by as many people as possible, a la MySpace.

Twitter does provide both of those privacy options, but it's either or per account. Groups or sub-instances of twitter make it easier for thos uses.

Implementing it would be a chore. People would need to waste valuable text space defining the group or category before writing the text. Unless Twitter were able to buy/provide more service numbers like 40404.

If they decide to do that, it would be interesting to see how they pull that off.

Maybe an email-only version of twitter...where you email an update. But that wouldnt be unique to Twitter. Anyone can do that.

I dont know. I digress....TWITTER ROCKS!