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Twitter should do group messaging and structured tags. I want to do things like:

@friends Don't forget my birthday party on #(Aug 20, 8pm) at #SomePub

or

@friends Don't forget my birthday party! #invitation(Aug 20, 8pm, SomePub)

And I want to be able to create a list where all invitations from people in the @friends group go

And finance people could do things like

Twitter has bottomed #buy(TWTR)

And I want to be able to specify a rule that makes these messages go to my stock trading list



This was going to be a thing. It didn't happen for reasons. http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/08/twitter-annotations/


This would be fantastically niche and tech-person-oriented, probably not the right move for the company as a whole. That said, nothing stops you from writing a bot on top of Twitter to power any of these interactions.


It would be a big niche if you consider how many people use Excel functions. It could make Twitter part of enterprise and group communications infrastructures.


I think Twitter now (recently) has group messaging.




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