Inessentially Essential

I enjoy just about everything posted to Brent Simmons’ weblog Inessential, the frequency of his posting varies, and it seems to depend on his development cycle. I paticulairly enjoy reading anything Brent has to say in regards to design, and watching the maturation of the great NetNewsWire which he develops from day to day. Today, Brent posted something very relevant in regard to Twitter, the web service that has been getting lots of press lately.

Brent writes:

“So then there’s Twitter, which is, basically, a service where you type into some little text field, and it appears on the web, and everyone can read it. Easy and delightful.

Sometimes I see feature requests for Twitter, and this makes me nervous. I hope that it adds zero features.”

Very well put Brent. As someone mentioned in the comments on inessential, the only feature I wish Twitter would add would be a way to only allow certain Friends messages’ to make it to your phone. I don’t need to be interrupted constantly throughout the day by the bloggers of the world, I get that enough already from the people I actually know in real life.