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"Tweader aims to provide one of the most wanted features that's missing from Twitter: threaded conversations.\nTwitter users have been so desperate for threaded conversations that they've resorted to all kinds of makeshift solutions. One of them has been to simply use search engines like TweetScan  and Summize (now Twitter Search) and a third party service called Quotably. Quotably does a good job threading conversations by simply entering a Tweeter ID but the results are sporadic at best.\nSometimes you can get lucky and most of a conversation is threaded, but rarely all of it. The frustrating part if when it totally links tweets that have nothing to do with one another as in this case:\n\nAll three tweets had nothing whatsoever do to with the others, so how did Quotably link them to the same thread? Beats me. The search for a better mousetrap regarding threads tweets continues.\nIs Tweader the holy grail that we've been searching for? Not really, but it's a step in the right direction. There's no doubt that they've tapped into one of the key elements to success if Twitter is ever going to give us the option to thread conversations. Tweader's decision to focus on the tweet ID to create threads is a good one. The Tweet ID is the URL of your Twitter message which you can access by clicking the Date and Time stamp of the tweet. (Highlighted in the image below.)\n\nBy copying this URL and pasting it into Tweader you can see a threaded conversation of the tweets related to that particular message. Yes, it is kind of inconvenient and requires work but if you really wanted to see some of the messages surrounding a particular tweet then this is what we got along with Quotably and the search engine method. All provide less than ideal results as you can tell. Here's what a Tweader conversation can look like:\n\nOne of Tweader's weaknesses is the fact that it only threads messages before the tweet ID you use and nothing that anyone replies after the tweet which is a big deal. For example, if someone asks the community a question about their favorite service for accomplishing a specific task then that would be an ideal thread to read so you can get a good list of ideas and potential new sites to try. Not having threaded conversations makes this kind of thing impossible to do on Twitter alone.\nIt's baffling how Twitter has never addressed this glaring omission but they've probably had their hands full dealing with stability and performance problems which seems to have been resolved lately. Their acquisition of Summize resolved their other major weakness which was lack of a solid search feature. Perhaps they will address the nagging issue of not having threaded conversations next. They should make it an option that can be enabled and disabled at all, or perhaps making it a link next to the date/time stamp for each tweet."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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