Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a Flu-Addled Daft Idea Of The Day: Colouring Twitter
When I noticed Gary Fleming hashtagging his microreviews of films on Twitter, my flu-addled brain took his #FF08 tag for a hexadecimal colour code with the end lopped off.
Which gave me a daft idea: why not add a bit of colour to Twitter postings that way? As in:
emokid1982 Oh, woe is me, I am so depressed and everybody hates me #000
raspberryreichman Bruce LaBruce has a queer zombie flick at Sundance! http://tinyurl.com/2r7qun #ffc0cb
ecowarrior my new hemp trousers are just spiffy #008000
Then, some clever coding person could whip up a beautiful interface to Twitter, allowing users to browse tweets according to their hue. And another even cleverer coding person could write a thingy that analysed the text of colored tweets, matching words to their associated shades.
Wouldn’t that be fab? By which I mean spectacularly pointless.
Update: I’d forgotten that del.icio.us actually implements something akin to this, for folk who want to ‘bookmark’ colourschemes, though it’s quite tricky to use.
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Posted by bobby at 6pm on 16.01.08
I fear for your sanity, Jack, but admit that could be a neat little idea. Let me know how you get on with it. (Hashtags.org seems somewhat buggy to me).
Posted by Gary Fleming at 6pm on 16.01.08
Not being a clever coding person, I won’t get on with it at all, I suspect! Shame lazyweb.org had to close down.
Posted by Jack Mottram at 12am on 17.01.08
i don’t want that ur idea mak twitter’s post like MSNPlus! Nicks (with color comands…. duh, so ugly)
Posted by albertroswell at 2pm on 18.02.08
Thanks! I’ve just made a Twitter bot. More info http://download11.com/twitter
Posted by Jonas Lejon at 2pm on 30.03.09