Twitter to release ‘contributer’ feature

Twitter has been brewing up a new feature for their API. This time, it is a feature the Twitter employees call ‘Contributers.’ The basic idea behind the new feature is to allow businesses to have multiple people behind their Twitter account. This way, anytime a business tweets out some information, you know the individual behind the tweet.

Here is a quote from the official release of the beta information:

“The feature we are beta testing is called ‘Contributors’ – it enables users to engage in more authentic conversations with businesses by allowing those organizations to manage multiple contributors to their account. The feature appends the contributor’s username to the tweet byline, making the business to consumer communication more personal; e.g. if @Twitter invites @Biz to tweet on its behalf, then a tweet from @Twitter would include @Biz in the byline so that users know more about the real people behind organizations.”

The new feature is still in development and is only in beta testing. At this point, Twitter says they are just looking for feedback from both businesses and users. Once it does come out of beta, however, Twitter business apps, such as CoTweet and Hootsuite.

Read [Twitter Blog]