Twitter is adopting Microformats
8. May 2007 – 21:28 byChris Messina is reporting that microformats have been added to all geeks’ favourite communication tool Twitter. More specifically hCards, XFN, and hAtom have been implemented to user profiles.
Implementation of microformats to Twitter makes sense because usually people have added most of their friends to it anyway, so hCards and XFN are just logically consistent and let Twitter become a very basic address book. However there seems to be a bug or whatever with the implementation; Michael Kaply’s Firefox plugin Operator isn’t displaying hCards. Have a look at the screenshot below; Operator can’t manage them right now. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Update May 10: Problems with microformats have been fixed. Looks really good now. 
3 Responses to “Twitter is adopting Microformats”
Yeah, we’re aware of the problem and working on it… likely just a misplaced FN class value…
By Chris Messina on May 8, 2007
I am sure it’s not a big problem.
By Carsten Pötter on May 8, 2007