Your Holiday Wish List: How Would You Improve Twitter?

If you read my latest post, I stated petty clearly that I thought Twitter gave me a better return on my investment over other true social media sites like Facebook or LinkedIn.

Now this is not to say that I think Twitter is perfect by an means. There are some definite items that I think Twitter needs to incorporate that would round out their service and satisfy a broader user base.

My wishes for twitter revolve around groups.

There are a couple of things I think Twitter can do with regards to groups that I would find very helpful.

1. Allow us to categorize the people we are following into groups. I may have a certain group of friends I want to segregate into a separate group and follow them in a different way than the entire list. Maybe I have a DC Tech group I can follow, or maybe one day I need to follow a certain set of peers at work for a proposal we are working on. By having this separation, I can more focus my attention to my needs at that time. Of course you could always switch over and to your entire follow group.
2. Allow group addressing. By this, I mean allow us to message, directly or not, a group that we have set up. Twitter could really get a foot up on even SMS messaging by allowing this feature. As it stands right now, it is very difficult to blast a direct message out to a group.

How about anyone else. What would be on your holiday Twitter wish list ?

Update 1: I have gotten some suggestions on Twitter. Here are a few:

1. Sorting by name

2. Show images inline

3. Full url’s