Comments on: Use Pockets to leave a Private Voicemail to anyone on Twitter

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:56:45 +0000

Also can't see much utility for this, I don't see myself using this service. have you imagined how many anoying messages you get on Facebook?

By: William

William — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:04:51 +0000

This seems like a nice idea but don't think this is something I'd be using. I personally hate getting phone or texts ads. Advertising is everwhere and thats cool but I like to keep my phone private.

By: Google Wave Forum

Google Wave Forum — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 00:24:15 +0000

Hi that is a great news for all people like me….I don't know a lot about wave and thus that is very new for me…but that is a very very good news for me because collaboratively I can use their service along with twitter and many other features at a time that is nice…thanks Google and thanks web master of this site..

By: sportsmansparadise

sportsmansparadise — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:45:46 +0000

How many fruitloops are going to abuse oops I mean use this?

http://sportsmansparadiseonline.com

By: Anurag Bansal

Anurag Bansal — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:50:43 +0000

Very well said. But if you genuinely want to talk to someone on Twitter but don't have his contact details, Pocketsapp is really helpful.
For example, I follow lot of popular bloggers in my niche but they all don't always follow me back. Now if I want to really get in touch with them, I can use Pocketsapp. This is because I can't send a direct message to them as they don't follow me. And the message is something which I can't send in public @reply sort of.
But yes, there is a very high possibility of people abusing the service and not useing it for the intended purpose. For that Pocketsapp will have to incorporate some kind of anti-spam mechanism to reduce SPAM and misuse of its service.
Let me know your views.
Thanks

By: jjray7

jjray7 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:07:59 +0000

Pocketsapp is an interesting concept but I don't get the utility unless it is try and contact people you really don't know. Thus, it has a greater utility for spam than actually for people that know each other. For instance, let's say I know Sara Jones from high school but lost track of her. Now I see her on twitter (note: I regularly get messages on facebook from people I have not seen in decades). If Sara is a friend, I can first follow her on twitter and see if she follows me back. If she does, then we send private messages to one another and get the telephone number. Maybe Sara does not want to talk to me. This longer process makes it easier for Sara to keep me at a distance than being greeted with a voicemail.

Should this catch on, I personally am not looking forward to having a flood of voicemail messages from SEOs who want to optimize my commercial website. Here is another issue, if I give pocketapps access to my twitter acct once, does that mean they can send me a voicemail from anyone in the universe who sends one in the future? Don't like the sound of this service.