Twitter Annotations
Tweets may soon include optional payloads of structured data. The purpose and usage of these annotations?
“Annotations are a blank slate that lend themselves to myriad divergent use cases. We want to provide open-ended utility for all the developers to innovate on top of.”
— Marcel Molina - Early look at Annotations
Possible Useful Annotations:
- The full URL of all shortened URLs that appear within a tweet.
- Longitude/latitude geo-locations when tweeting from GPS-enabled devices.
- Re-tweet history and/or attribution information.
- Multimedia URLs. Link a tweet to images, videos, and sound files.
- Multimedia data. The system should eventually support 2K payloads containing small images, sound clips, MIDI, etc.
- Microformats