Monday, January 11, 2010

Twitter too

I've decided to give Twitter another chance, for those small thoughts which are really too short and disconnected for a blog post. Follow me here.

(I've also made a tweet for Domai announcements.)

If you use Twitter, it should also be an easy way to keep up with new posts here, if I remember to notify about them.

It seems to me that Twitter easily gets used as a chat channel... does it? And does this not cripple it a little bit?

Is there a way to turn off seeing everybody else's tweets on somebody's home page? And is there a way to make an "@" tweet private?
Update: yes, it seems there's a "direct message", but it's not obvious how one does that...

7 comments:

Miserere said...

OK dude, I'm following you. Better be churning out some sterling silver tweets by tomorrow or I'm cutting you off.

:-p

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

Oh no, you're stressing me!

Timo Lehtinen said...

If you use Twitter, it should also be an easy way to keep up with new posts here, if I remember to notify about them.

There are ways to make such notifications automatic. I'm not sure how exactly as I haven't done that myself, but many Blogger users seem to have such automations in place.

It seems to me that Twitter easily gets used as a chat channel... does it? And does this not cripple it a little bit?

You can use Twitter however you want. Some chat, some don't. Some don't even follow anyone, they use Twitter just for announcements. I find that some interactivity or reciprocality is part of the culture, but even then it's up to you.

Is there a way to turn off seeing everybody else's tweets on somebody's home page? And is there a way to make an "@" tweet private?

Yes, it's called a DM (direct message).

BTW, the only reason I've kept using Twitter (lazily) for a full year now is because I discovered the Tweetie app. It's very convenient.

Miserere said...

Actually, could you be one of those nice Twitterers that only tweets once every 2-3 days? I follow some people who tweet about once per hour, and I don't understand how they expect me to follow everything they tweet.

I admit that I still don't understand Twitter as a large-scale social media utility.

Monsieur Beep! said...

Oh you're on Twitter - so good to have you in the community. At first I didn't think much of Twitter, but after a while I found out that it's also a useful instrument for broadcasting announcements and sharing instant thoughts and feelings. Funny that the Twitter idea should be working, as a business model...

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

"I find that some interactivity or reciprocality is part of the culture"

Yes, I'm beginning to see that. Thanks.

And I have found an app for Twitter, called Kiwi, it seems practical.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

"could you be one of those nice Twitterers that only tweets once every 2-3 days?"

I'll try. If I can do it without forgetting it.

I may do it more often, I don't know. It seems tweeting is often used as a sort of "background chatter" which you only pay half attention to, until something catches your eye.