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"You love using Twitter, but would prefer a way to better catalogue and segregate that out of control set of boxes they call a followers list? You might be interested in something in the works over at Twitter, then.  According to an exclusive InformationWeek interview with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, they're adding contact grouping as well as a number of other slated features:\nTwitter is working on adding the ability for users to separate their contacts into groups, support for sending and receiving messages by e-mail, and adding new instant-message and Internet channels for the service, said CEO Jack Dorsey in a one-on-one interview with InformationWeek. \nOf course, no talk about Twitter these days is worth its salt until the subject of uptime (something I'm particularly aware of at the moment, since the service is down presently due to a database collapse).\nIW's Mitch Wagner spoke a bit on uptime with Dorsey as well, and he assured all of us that these are still the first priority, even while they're making plans for new features to be added once stability is established.\n\"We've been adding some databases and hardware and tweaking our schema to take a lot of load off the main database,\" Dorsey told Mitch late Tuesday. \"We've seen some improvements in the last few days, and we're making sure we make a good record of stability before we turn on IM, which is a popular service and will increase the load.\"\nAlong with the contact grouping, they also plan to upgrade their email interfaces a bit. Currently every action, whenever your email notifications are turned on, will generate an email in your inbox. Jason Calacanis described the huge problem this can generate for a user with a fairly high online profile:\nAfter getting my head bashed in with invites to Plurk I gave in today. The result was the image above: 100 invites in about 20 minutes. Such is the cost of internet fame\u2014the weakest form of fame in existence to be sure.\nTo remedy this, Twitter is looking to add a digest mode that will aggregate your updates until a pre-set iteration of time and then send them to you.\nThey're also looking to improve the way links are handled.  One of the many criticisms of Twitter that Plurk aimed to answer with it's attempt to recreate is the ability to intelligently handle different media types, like links to Flickr or other image sources, and better use of inline linking.  Many of the add-ons to Twitter, like Twhirl, can do this by taking Twitter from the API and laying over their own functionality, but the Web interface has been the same spartan landscape since the service's inception.\nI'm personally not the most addicted Twitter person in the world, and my attempts to follow Frederic's lead and leave Twitter have left me feeling a bit empty.  In short, I miss it. I'm starting to see some interesting possibilities and new ways being a Twitter user can benefit me.\nBut darnit, Twitterfolk, heal thyself!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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