Yet more on the Twitter thing

[demiurgent]

I've now had a couple people say that it's annoying to have to click through to read the twits on the Loudtwitter post, when they just want to glance and see them. At this point, I'm going to go back to that.

Sometimes, you just can't get rid of a bomb!

Comments

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

I've seen at least one person on my f-list say they'll be culling their list based on how much Twitter they have to deal with. So you can't really win I guess...

[scarfman]

Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb.

[z-gryphon.livejournal.com]

Apparently I must revise my opinion (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/index.html) that Twitter has no actual usefulness whatsoever. It seems if you're going to get locked up by third-world police who don't bother taking your cellphone away, it can be quite handy.

I still find it irritating, though. :)

[norda.livejournal.com]

I've been of two minds about the folks on my list who Twitter. I never know whether they're putting their thoughts out there for me to comment on, the same way they would in a lengthier and more directed journal entry, or whether their Twitterings are really just notes to themselves as reminders to write more fully when time permits.

Where do you stand on this?

[wednesday]

I think the sanest compromise here is an opt-in alternative, either by providing direction to the RSS and/or Atom feeds your Twitter account generates for assorted views, or pointing LoudTwitter at a separate weblog (extant or new) and making a feed for those specific entries available.

The latter makes the most sense to me in the abstract (blog-topic feed will not update with every post, but rather supply the aggregate content as and when LoudTwitter disgorges the digest to it), but concerns me in the specific. You'd need appropriate robots.txt so that Google doesn't ding pagerank (assuming extant blog option) for duplicated content belonging to multiple Eric Burnses.

This isn't a you-crit; it's progressed to a technicial concern.

[chadu.livejournal.com]

Sixties TV Batman FTW.

CU

[elfstar18.livejournal.com]

You're the only person on my flist who twitters, and I confess that I find it baffling and not interesting. But you lj-cut it, and I *choose* to read your journal after all (we don't know each other at all in real life), so it's not that much of a problem.

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could friendslock them on an opt-in custom filter?

[point5b.livejournal.com]

Don't see the problem, myself.