Twits

[lonecow]

This post has been building up for a while. I am probably developing an ulcer from holding on to it. J knows if he ever wants to set me off on an old-person-type rant all he has to do is say one little word. One tiny, insignificant little word. So innocent. So (seemingly) innocuous.

That word?

*Deep breath*

Twitter.

I can feel my heart rate pick up

Comments

[e_mily]

Yeah, I got sucked into Twitter but I'm not really a big fan of twitfeeds on LJ. It just.... it takes away the experience. It takes away the conversation. It takes away the "I'M DOING THIS RIGHT NOW" aspect that is the ESSENCE of twitter.

But my friends are mostly considerate enough to put their twitfeeds behind an ljcut.

[lonecow]

Yes, the immediacy is what appeals about Twitter. That is pretty cool, I have to admit.

I'm the sort of person who wonders what they're missing when there are lj-cuts involved. I am making myself scroll down past the tweets (I used to read them all hoping for something to make sense), but I feel vaguely guilty when I do.

I'd just rather not have to be torn between wanting to know more about my flist and wanting to read something more substantial. :)

[nobleplatypus]

I understand how you feel. I've been stubbornly refusing to get a twitter account, mostly because I really don't have the time or inclination to get involved in yet another social networking-type site; I have to all but force myself to use facebook as is. And I also have no idea why people make blog posts of their tweets. There's something about it that makes me feel mildly, illogically offended, like it's just a cursory nod towards LJ. "This is what I'm so busy doing that I can't be bothered to make a real post." I know that isn't how it's meant, but that's how it feels.

It's also just generally confuzzling to me--anyone on your LJ who really wants to read your tweets is probably on twitter and getting them already, right?

[lonecow]

I have wondered that too! I think maybe people are using their blogs as a way to store their twitters? I don't know how far back Twitter actually keeps old tweets.

Mainly I use Facebook to post comic/movie/website references. I don't really use it the way it's meant to, because I kind of find it puzzling and boring! Maybe I am just getting old and crotchety.

[dave_t_lurker]

You can block or otherwise remove twitter post from LJ friends page with the info here :
http://matgb.livejournal.com/354073.html

[lonecow]

You have no idea how happy you've just made me. :D Thank you so much!

[dave_t_lurker]

No problem, hope it helps :)

[pagan_gerbil]

I also am a non-twitter... Call me old-fashioned, but I really can't get my head around the point of it. What was wrong with forums, chat rooms and IM programs that we needed another conversationer

[pagan_gerbil]

PS See how that was way more than 140 characters? Just because you said "Twitter" and I thought "I don't like Twitter"

My thoughts would never fit in a tweet.

[lonecow]

I have nothing against Twitter, I can see the appeal of letting the world hear about what you're doing at the moment. (It would be fantastic in a flash-mob instance, I imagine.)

I think people post the tweets to their blog as a way to create a history they can look back through, but I'm not sure how often they'd actually be doing that. I'm just frustrated their bringing this different way of socialising back to LJ when I was happy letting it be on another site.

[rob_w]

Bah-phooey Pete. You're a miserable sod

[miss_sassy]

I am not a fan of Twitter. I don't understand the hype, and the fact that every time I turn on MSNBC, there's some old congress person talking about how they were "tweeting" with some other congress members makes me want to throw up and then start crying.

Also, your post title amused me immensely when I found out what the context was.

[lonecow]

I was wondering if that was real! Wow. I'm not sure I want to know that government officials are basically acting like school children passing around notes during class.

Twitter really does lend itself well to those sort of names. :P

[miss_sassy]

I've seen news reports where John McCain was talking about "tweeting" with other folks. It made me very mad.

All the Twitter lingo bothers me, but the "twits" thing is awesome, lol.