Twitter Handles as Profile Image instead of spelt out handles that perform actions.

In twitter Compose a user begins to type out a users handle, like @Apple but instead of @Apple the Profile Image for @Apple shows instead . Like an emoji. This reduces character count in tweets the full handle is a single handle profile handle image.

The tweet to the receiver is to many mentioned handles has profile handles profile images instead of spelt out full @TwitterHandles

The actions to @Handles can the be executed in various ways. The receiver can single tap a Profile Handle Image to say switch with a single Tap from Profile Image in a received message to full spelt out Handle. Ie,  would become @Apple. Tapping again @Apple goes back to 

More Actions can then be created. A Tap and hold on a Profile Image Handle could be used to Rely to that handle… Live or in a New Compose Tweet to that Handle or As a Reply-All to all Handles in the Tweet.

With Developer Imagination more Actions to Twitter Profile Image Handles could be made.

The user in Settings can switch on feature or turn off.

Thats the basic idea. Thanks. Chris

Please give us an option to be able to unlike tweets from private accounts. Facebook have given their users an option to unlike posts from private accounts and posts from blocked accounts using the activity log. It does not violate anyone’s privacy as you cannot see the posts in your activity log, it just informs you that you liked a post and allows you to unlike it. I please request the same option to be available on Twitter. It takes a very long while to post all of your tweets and photos to a new account and try to figure out a way to move all of your followers especially if you have so many. I would appreciate to have control over my activity on my account rather than make a new one as it’s challenging. Please give us the option of an activity log to be able to unlike tweets and photos from years ago from private and blocked accounts. It’s worrying that some people block you for liking their photo and the photo appears on your profile for everyone but you to see. Please allow us the ability to unlike this content. We don’t need to see the private photos, just be able to delete them using some form of activity log. Perhaps being able to block some one should remove your like from their post as another way to make this possible.

I have an idea for Twitter Ratings.
The idea is to simplify what people are saying on Twitter instead of having to read through all the tweets.

How it would work would be if you send out a tweet about a movie, Twitter will then ask you what you would rate the movie on a scale of 1-5 star rating. Then Twitter will use this information and display the results of everyones rating at the top of the search results of the given movie.

This could work for TV Shows, Movies, and even Consumer Products.

Considering Netflix has no rating system anymore, IMDB has no discussion board so who knows if the ratings are even real and the Rotten Tomatoes site isn't all that it is cracked up to be. I believe people spend more time on Twitter. I find myself searching hashtags on Twitter to see what other opinions are on a movie or tv show before I watch it. Instead of always having to read all the tweets the rating system would be a quick guide for those to see what others on Twitter think before you decide to watch.

This would be desirable for research into both active & historical fake & disinfo accounts. Academics might also like it

Description

An endpoint or method that returns whether accounts has been renamed, suspended, deactivated or deleted, for both a single account and a list of accounts.

We should be able to pass in either screenname or id or idstr, or lists thereof.

Return an appropriately detailed JSON object.

We can currently only establish if an account is suspended by attempting a GET user/show & then parsing the error response codes.

Rationale

It used to be possible to do a quick and dirty check on whether an account had been suspended by using cURL on the url

twitter.com/intent/user?.......

and completing it with either screenname= or userid=.

One could then parse the response and extract the title tag to see whether an individual account was still active or had been suspended.

If one had 10 or 20 ids to deal with, it was fast and required no faffing about with code for usable, helpful data.

The page code has been changed & this is now impossible.

An alternative is to use GET user/lookup

This of course only returns user objects if the user still exists on twitter.

But we can’t know if the withheld user objects are not returned because they are suspended or because they have been deleted or deactivated by the user.

To establish if an account is suspended we have to use user/show, which for a large # of ids is expensive (i.e. we rapidly run into rate-limits) & even then have to parse the error rather than get a straightforward response.

All this makes tracking fake & disinfo accounts harder than it needs to be.

Hence the “intent” url was incredibly useful.