If I were to make posts of the exact same length and content but it didn't have the "sent by twitter" stuff attached then would you have the same reaction? Because if it's long I post it to LJ and if it's short I post it to Twitter with the intention that it winds up on LJ anyway. If there were no Twitter I'd probably still post 60% of the same content.
For me it depends on the person ... there's at least one person on my Twitter list who tweets at least 20 times a day about which episode of some TV show they are watching, or that it's stopped raining, there's another that moans about the trains being delayed pretty much every day ... and I read them in Twitter ... so seeing a long list of those things on LJ I skip past ... there are other people that post a few times a day and (to be blunt) with things I want to know about or might find interesting ... and there's another person who mostly tweets URLs to things they found interesting, but with no accompanying text, so it just appears as TinyURLs in Twitter and I've not got the time to click through all of those.
I should say that for some it's interesting how what *I* find interesting varies through _their_ day ... I might be interested in their work tweets, or their TV tweets but be bored senseless by their public transport tweets, ... or vice versa!
And I guess finally there is the "live" vs "recorded" thing, that watching a football match "live" on TV is more exciting that watching the same match that was recorded earlier ... a sort of subconscious connection and that your good wishes/whatever connect to and influence their life (and vice versa) that a "summary of the days tweets" doesn't have the impact of reading (and potentially replying to) individual tweets during the day.
But that's *my* experience, I'm sure it varies for others.
I think it's because it's compilations of bits written at different times, all interspersed with the twitter time stuff. I prefer stuff that was all written at one time as it reads more smoothly.
I dislike the twitter format, and would much rather people didn't automatically divert them into LJ. Its often a reason to unfriend people, as it triggers a minor annoyance every time I see one.
I skip over them: if I started to read I wouldn't keep up with anything. mraltariel was at a big conference at the end of last year where people used Twitter to describe how panels had been going, pass around news, make last minute group dinner arrangements, etc. That seems like a really good use of it to me.
The pointless bit seems to be the reproduction of half a conversation with somebody else. Clearly the technology doesn't distinguish between those items and the general statements, but it's unsatisfactory in that the half-conversations don't quite make sense, and there's a feeling of eavesdropping when they do. (This is also why I find mobile phones so annoying on trains; my brain automatically tries to fill in the other half of the conversation, whereas if two people are talking I can usually tune the whole thing out.)
I have a Twitter account and people I want to read on there I read on there. I don't need to read it on LJ too and I unfriend people who post their Twitter feeds to LJ.
There are one or two people whose Twitter feeds I will read occasionally, mostly because there is actual content of interest to me in them. Other than that, I would love to have an auto-delete function,.
I tried but can't see a purpose for them. If I click on a link, all I get is the one liner that ships through to lj. If I'm missing something longer, deeper and more meaningful by not being registered, well, meh. Not my problem.
I like 'em. But then the only people who post them I already follow, so I can see the context. Without context I can see how irritating it would/could be. I spent a lot more time over at Twitter than I do in LJ anyway - I tend to prefer the format, type of conversation, links and so on.
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I have a Twitter account, but don't cross-post my tweets to LJ.
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If I were to make posts of the exact same length and content but it didn't have the "sent by twitter" stuff attached then would you have the same reaction? Because if it's long I post it to LJ and if it's short I post it to Twitter with the intention that it winds up on LJ anyway. If there were no Twitter I'd probably still post 60% of the same content.
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I should say that for some it's interesting how what *I* find interesting varies through _their_ day ... I might be interested in their work tweets, or their TV tweets but be bored senseless by their public transport tweets, ... or vice versa!
And I guess finally there is the "live" vs "recorded" thing, that watching a football match "live" on TV is more exciting that watching the same match that was recorded earlier ... a sort of subconscious connection and that your good wishes/whatever connect to and influence their life (and vice versa) that a "summary of the days tweets" doesn't have the impact of reading (and potentially replying to) individual tweets during the day.
But that's *my* experience, I'm sure it varies for others.
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It isn't the content, but the way it's presented.
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