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Ive been giving the idea of a "Twitter" in a users profile page instead of a "Blog" and i think that a "Twitter" would actually solve many possible problems.

Twitter
its a bit boaring but you update your space with your thoughts and activities.

Blog
Your hoping members will interacte with what ever you post about.


Already with the very simple blog rick pushed out for 7.5 none of my members are using it?
Well you cant even thank anyone for there comments or prase.

If a member leaves abusive comments or advertising with in your proile space you can only delete it not edit or block a person from adding more and more comments into your profile.

So in a Nut shell its wide open for abuse.

BUT

If you make it a twitter in your profile.
Where its YOU who updates your profile page with what your upto etc then your the only one who would be guilty of adding offensive comments.

Personally i do think a "Twitter" with in a forum has more legs than a "Blog" beacuse the Twitter is about you and that's where you find the info in your profile page.

Where as in reality i think that if a memeber wants to make a "Blog" topic they may as well use say a General forum to inform the forum.

There are so many holes and reasons for a blog not to work in a forum enviroment IMO but i think a "Twitter" might just become a usefull function.

Only idea's before rick gets 8.0 finished up.

(p.s. i was also one of the many that shouted long and hard for a BLOG but i think that opertunity has been missed).

Your Thoughts ?

I do like twitter, but I see where admins will want to use blogs; so if we chose to go the route of the tweets, we'd likely have to put it along side of blogs (or have it an option).

Another issue would be the users who hate twitter (150 character postings) and use alternatives (Jaiku, Itenti.ca, CitySpeek, etc).

There's a blog with 7.5?
I completely missed that!

I think Mark is referring to the comments allowed in a users profile now. Somewhat of a blog I guess???

Oh right...
I was going though my CP looking for a 'blog' setting!

Blog in reverse. LOL

i didnt realise there was a 150 restriction to it.
Well maybe lift that restriction?

Ive never used it "Twitter" but if you think about it there isnt really anywhere on the forum you as a member can just post stuff about you? Well not unless you start a new topic but then you would just get called strange lol.

All kinds of unfinished issues with the blog would arise, okay they would be ironed out eventually, but i'm just thinking the shorter road and more usefull to a community would be the twitter than the blog.

Yes every forum is diffrent and its needs, but i do think its worth a serious look at, for example i could log in to Gizmo's profile and catch up on his court case, and maybe not having to look at his picture everytime i read it lol.






Didnt mean to panic you but it was a stepping stone to a blog lol.

The social net working for blogs is now well established now with all the big boys, i wonder if some memebers who are asking for a blog could really just looking for somewhere a member can leave there own comments aka "Twitter" would do this.

ahh well to the powers be "Rick"

You can't lift the restriction on twitter, it's built into the specifications; it's designed for "short status updates"; in which, according to them, is 150 characters.

I've been pushing for a "Biography" field in the profile page since UBB.threads v7 was in the "idea" phase (it was in Classic, I tried to make sure every item that was useful in classic was in threads) but it wasn't deemed popular enough to add in.

And you know you love my picture ...

I'm meaning within our forums v8 to have the option to Twitter on your own profile. Not to visit Twitter if you get me, just to clear that one up lol.

thats a neat idea, more pertinent to your forum audience allowing users to create an environment of social networking among themselves. Come to think of it this is really catchy way of an expanded more taylored shout box ....cool --- thumbs up