Twitter updates

[akicif]

I've finally found out how to filter LoudTwitter output by custom flist (you use the email update, not the atom or xmlrc ones).

So, who wants a bit of peace and quiet around here?

[Poll #1387236]

Comments

[muninnhuginn]

Ah, now that's interesting. I may be the only one, but I'm quite happy seeing tweets fed into LJ. (What I hate is having to click thru' an lj-cut to read them.)

I may have to investigate making my tweets opt-in. Who would miss the egg-egg-egg posts, I wonder?

[feorag.livejournal.com]

Whereas I'm the other way round. I don't mind seeing them at all, as long as they are behind a cut!

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

I'm of the opposite opinion, if someone wants me to read what they're up to, why can't they do a proper LJ post? At least Steve cuts them!

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Good point, I should also have asked about lj-cuts, too. I suppose if I'm already filtering out people who don't want to see tweets, I can de-cut them. But maybe I should have another poll?

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this. I'm happy to see tweets on LJ but don't want to click a cut to read them. If they're behind a cut I probably won't read them at all.

I really don't get why people are so anti tweets-on-LJ. Either they're interesting, in which case being tweets shouldn't matter, or they're boring, in which case the person's whole journal is probably boring and I'll be skipping it anyway. If an original-to-LJ post consisted of short statements each less than 140 characters no-one would be complaining. Why should the fact that they've been already posted elsewhere suddenly make them abhorrent?

[cheekbones3.livejournal.com]

I enjoy reading what people are doing, but having it appear in staccato statements takes any pleasure out of the reading for me. I roughly equate it to reading The Hobbit in text message format.

[darth-tigger.livejournal.com]

I think that then comes down to the skill of the writer. Ideally, before deciding whether or not to crosspost tweets to LJ, it would be nice if the writer thought "in general, if a day's tweets were lumped together would they be interesting to a reader?" If the signal-to-noise ratio was good enough to keep the pleasure in reading, I'd keep reading; if not, not. But whether I read or not is up to me, it's not up to me what someone else posts - if I find their posts boring (whether re-tweets or original posts) I'll stop reading them, but I shouldn't try to stop them writing them.

I suspect that a brilliant writer could make The Hobbit in text message format utterly gripping and fascinating!

I just don't want to say "no-one must ever post their tweets on LJ" because I'm sure some people's cross-posted tweets will be entertaining. I'd rather suggest that if your posts are boring you might wonder about whether or not to post them, whatever the posts are. But when it comes down to it, it's up to the writer what to write and up to the reader what to read.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[digitalraven]

It's crossing the feeds. If I want to see when people go for a coffee or read half a conversation with someone who has protected their updates, I can go to Twitter. Feeding them to LJ clutters the flist with a feed that's already accessible elsewhere.

As always Tef says it better than I do.

[spudtater.livejournal.com]

Although I occasionally see a one-line LJ post, these are the exception rather than the rule. Maybe all my friends are bletherers?   8^)

[matgb]

IAWTC

I prefer them to no content, and hate it when they're cut.

But I also have decided to filter mine away because I was using them as an excuse for content, and need to start actually writing stuff as it helps me think.

But I haven't posted the poll setting up the filter yet.