Posts Tagged ‘Stowe Boyd ’
A week or two ago, Stowe Boyd (@stoweboyd) posted a message on his blog entitled “Microsyntax: A Messifesto”, in which he outlines his plans for a structured survey of ‘microsyntax’ for Twitter, which he defines as “various ways to embed structured information right into the text of Twitter messages.” Some obvious examples of these are ‘@’ for replying to people, or ‘#’ for inserting keywords, which, while invented by Twitter users (see Chris Messina’s (@chrismessina) original/updated post on using hashtags from back in August, ’07), have become so commonplace that they are now an indispensable part of the Twitter grammar.
Back in December of 2008, I had a discussion with Mike Krieger (@mikeyk) where I started thinking about possible ways to revise the way that we retweet. The rest of this post is the result of some more recent thinking on the subject inspired by Chris and Stowe’s efforts:
