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[lillibet]

Based on a couple of conversations I've had lately...

[Poll #1208384]

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[dpolicar]

though I really don't care.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was wishing for a "don't care" option in the poll.

FWIW, I have a twitter account I rarely use.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i made a point of asking folks who routinely read my lj what they think.

i've had several folks say "yes, please post them" and a few "yeah, i'm not interested but i can ignore it" and nobody saying "this is annoying, please stop".

i put them behind a cut so that it takes up less friendspage space for folks who aren't interested.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

I've been meaning to mention to you, R, that my vote would be keep posting them, but cut with the LJ-cut. The LJ cut takes up as much screen-space, if not more, as the actual line of Twitter text, (usually two lines of cut-overhead, vs one line of twitter text), but doesn't tell me anything about what's going on with you.

I want to be able to look over at LJ, skim down the page, and see, "Oh goodie! rmd is getting some time with her cats! Good, she needs a little down-time. It sounds like she's having a better day than yesterday." But I'm lazy, too, and clicking through a cut-link to get to that seems silly.

I feel so behind the times. I just got hip with the awesome new Facebook thingie of three years ago, just as folks are moving on to Twitter. Sigh. I /like/ Facebook.

[coraline]

if she's only twittering once a day, that makes sense, but i have lots of friends who have 5-10 entries/day and the cut is definitely a good idea in that case...

[schmoomom.livejournal.com]

I'm not twittering much while I'm here, but in Ireland I do a lot (yay DSL!). I think it's good, as it shows things that I don't have time to post to LJ, but that I want to post or talk about.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing any twitter posts on LJ. I don't think I'd mind unless they are updating every hour. They are small, after all.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

The thing for me is that if folks didn't mention that's what they were doing, how would anyone know? I mean, someone has a post that says "Hey, it's sunny out and I'm going for a walk." What does it matter what software interface it came through to get to the screen? To me worrying about whether it's LJ or Twitter seems similar to worrying about whether someone made their post on a downloaded LJ-client or through the on-site interface.

[frobzwiththingz.livejournal.com]

the reason people do this, when you get right down to it, is that there does not yet exist a generic credential system on the internet that all of the social networking sites can take advantage of, such that "friending" and feeding could be cross-site. People are working on this; openID is close, but not quite there yet. this behaviour will eventually go away on its own.

[vanguardcdk.livejournal.com]

To me it's the same as some friends who write posts and put them on their multiple sites (LJ, Myspace, etc.). No biggie I have a mental note that I may see some of their posts multiple times.

Now if they were twittering 182 times a day and filling up my friends page, that would be different...

[bex77]

You forgot my opinion...they bother me. I hate them.

I don't want to tell a person what to put in their journal.

I am usually of the "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything" school. But I do find them annoying. I don't like short, cryptic posts from any interface. And LJ posts delayed by 12 or more hours can be problematic.

My opinion is unfairly colored by the fact that the first person I saw use Twitter was a lonely, desperate soul who left it chirping on his PDA at all times, even during dinner out at a fancy restaurant, and he input twits mid-conversation in the rudest way possible. And the first person I saw using Loud Twitter in LJ is a lonely, depressed, desperate person who used her twits to threaten me. So when I see them from anyone, I think, "Oh, no! This person has gone all cryptic and desperate! How pathetic! I should try to help them!"

It also puts across a kind of conceit in the "I am SSSSOOOO BUSY I only have time to type 8 words, so here they are, better than nothing, bye bye!" That may be fine for the twits, but LJ is usually more than that.

Of course, no one owes me longer posts. So do what you want. But don't think people are liking them, even if they can't comment saying "STOP!" or "WRITE MORE!" to your journal.

[starphire.livejournal.com]

They're called "twits"? Wow, that's a terrible name-association!
Makes me wonder if they're talking about the message or the user.

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

I agree with you.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "no opinion," "don't care," "hadn't really noticed" or "Say what now?" should prolly have been an option here :P

[minkrose]

I read them - I'd rather have some information about what is going on with my friends than nothing, and I know a couple people who use Twitter-on-LJ mostly for posting. These are usually the once a day summary of daily Twitter postings.

However, I never want to comment on those posts. It feels like the person isn't actually near LJ or even their computer and it doesn't feel like a conversation anymore. It feels like a very one-way communication to me. So, it doesn't actively bother me, it just doesn't strengthen my relationship with that person.

[roozle.livejournal.com]

There's lots of posts I never want to comment on. People logging their daily diet, for example. I don't see these as much different from Twitter in the ways you describe.

[v-verticordia.livejournal.com]

Hi! I don't know you, but that makes you the perfect person to ask:

What's a twitter?????


An LJ acquaintence of mine started inundating me with it and I couldn't take it anymore!

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

To quote from twitter.com (http://twitter.com/):

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

[(Anonymous)]

bookly here. I was wondering the same thing. Guess I've been away from LJ for too long. Blasted dialup connections...

[roozle.livejournal.com]

It doesn't add to conversation.

But I've gotten used to it, it's just another way of using the medium.

That said, entirely cryptic, out of context posts are sometimes annoying whatever way they come to me.

[earthling177.livejournal.com]

I chose "I'm fine with it" but it's actually closer to "six of one, half a dozen of the other". I don't care either way, I won't miss them if they're gone, it's not too much of an effort for me to ignore most of them. That said, it would be immensely better if the twits that meant something (like say, "I'm doing [activity] at [place]/[time] with [people]") or something similar got cross-posted to LJ and the ones that were basically useless unless you have Twitter (like say, "at so-and-so: 'ha!'", or "You bet!"), because, really, what are we supposed to do with that information? So, like many other people, I suppose I'm just waiting for the fad to pass.