Google to launch Twitter-like service for Gmail

[Matthew DeCarlo]

Google reportedly plans to add a Twitter-like service to Gmail later this week. Twitter, in case this is your first day on the Web, is a microblogging service that allows users to post messages of up to 140 characters, which are displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to subscribers. Facebook also offers a status update system.

While Gmail users can already set their status, each update overwrites the previous message. Google plans to extend this feature, allowing Gmail users to view a stream of status updates from people they choose to connect with. It will also be tightly integrated with YouTube and Picasa, Google's video and image-sharing services.

Yahoo introduced a similar "status-casting" feature last year, which allows users read their contacts' 140-character updates via Yahoo Mail or Messenger, as well as Flickr, Twitter and others. It's unclear whether Google will link Gmail status updates to rival social-networking services, but it seems like it would be beneficial.

Permalink to story.

https://www.techspot.com/news/37857-google-to-launch-twitter-like-service-for-gmail.html

 

[JudaZ]

is it just me, or does this seem rather pointless and useless?

 

[unrealmp3]

As long as they don't put too much emphasis on it..
Still meh.

 

[Guest]

Far more important then wasting time on this rather meaningless feature would be to:

A) Allow the choice to disable Conversation Threading on an individual email and/or global basis. It absolutely makes GMail a disaster once an email has more than a handful of threads (common).

B) Build in real Contact Sharing in Google Apps.

Not sure where Google's head is at these days!?