I keep wondering whether other people don't have scrollbars or something, because that's what I use when there are twitters that I do not feel like reading.
I guess it'd be different if there were a higher twitter-to-post ratio on my flist or something.
I have to admit that I'm one of those people where if I want to read your Twitters I will have you friended on Twitter. I don't get why anyone would copy Twitters over to LJ in what amount to out of context snippets of conversation. The "just scroll down" option doesn't really work when you have people using this regularly and turning a flist into an annoying signal to noise ratio
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what amount to out of context snippets of conversation
This? This is a problem. Loudtwitter has a really easy option to remove replies, so you only get content, not conversations, which is what I've set mine to. Others prefer to import everything, I don't get the point as one half of a conversation is pointless, normally.
But the rest of my tweets are normally fairly useful, and I'm specifically using it in order to add content elsewhere, it replaces my old use of direct text messaging posts and similar.
The code should remove the entire list of tweets and not waste any space, that's what it did for me. It may do weird stuff on other layouts, I've no way of knowing but am happy to look if someone has a problem.
I agree with Debi-I have a lot of friends on Twitter and Facebook that don't read my LJ directly, and have others on LJ that don't use Twitter; especially for links and stuff I want to share it's a good way of getting stuff out there
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Good to know about the coding! I'll have to take a look.
I can also see how if the tweets are done in a way where it's imparting a certain kind of information in a certain manner, then LoudTweets make sense. (Esp since I assume they'd also gather up those posts in a sort of context, even if it's just "All tweets done today" where arguably the collected post is more useful than ferreting out the tweets on one's, erm, twitlist ;) )
I guess the problem lies with those who aren't using the connected system in a mindful manner, and the LJ posts are just a backup archive of sentences that don't mean anything. Which is why the cut tags work so well for someone like me, because they cut down on the noise on my flist, but it's an easy click (esp with various Firefox extensions) to read the content if I want to.
I'll have to try the code out though, to see if that's even more helpful. So much obliged on your input there =)
It just strikes me as exacerbating the biggest problem with the blogging age: everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. People Digg blog posts that link to blog posts that link to an actual vague news story, with nothing in between adding any actual content. Entire multi-million dollar sites have sprouted up that center around forming connections and not actually doing anything with them. And now, because nobody can solve the real networking problems with the Web, we have services that copy your content from one thingy you use to another thingy you use, diluting the amount of actual interesting content that appears on each thingy.
I've had days where a good third of my friends page is just copy/pasted from Twitter. Something is wrong when I'm close to spending as much time identifying and skipping xeroxed junk as I am reading new stuff.
Not that your regular posts are lacking in content by any stretch of the imagination, but as a picky design nerd I'm still going to get huffy about the issue in general.
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I guess it'd be different if there were a higher twitter-to-post ratio on my flist or something.
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This? This is a problem. Loudtwitter has a really easy option to remove replies, so you only get content, not conversations, which is what I've set mine to. Others prefer to import everything, I don't get the point as one half of a conversation is pointless, normally.
But the rest of my tweets are normally fairly useful, and I'm specifically using it in order to add content elsewhere, it replaces my old use of direct text messaging posts and similar.
The code should remove the entire list of tweets and not waste any space, that's what it did for me. It may do weird stuff on other layouts, I've no way of knowing but am happy to look if someone has a problem.
I agree with Debi-I have a lot of friends on Twitter and Facebook that don't read my LJ directly, and have others on LJ that don't use Twitter; especially for links and stuff I want to share it's a good way of getting stuff out there ( ... )
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I can also see how if the tweets are done in a way where it's imparting a certain kind of information in a certain manner, then LoudTweets make sense. (Esp since I assume they'd also gather up those posts in a sort of context, even if it's just "All tweets done today" where arguably the collected post is more useful than ferreting out the tweets on one's, erm, twitlist ;) )
I guess the problem lies with those who aren't using the connected system in a mindful manner, and the LJ posts are just a backup archive of sentences that don't mean anything. Which is why the cut tags work so well for someone like me, because they cut down on the noise on my flist, but it's an easy click (esp with various Firefox extensions) to read the content if I want to.
I'll have to try the code out though, to see if that's even more helpful. So much obliged on your input there =)
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I do appreciate, IB, that you remove the @ replies, but like TBQ said, if I have you friended on both systems, which I do, then it's very redundant.
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I've had days where a good third of my friends page is just copy/pasted from Twitter. Something is wrong when I'm close to spending as much time identifying and skipping xeroxed junk as I am reading new stuff.
Not that your regular posts are lacking in content by any stretch of the imagination, but as a picky design nerd I'm still going to get huffy about the issue in general.
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