Twitter

[watervole]

I hate reading Twitter posts.

It is clear from the responses to my recent poll that most of my friends also hate reading Twitter posts.

Twitter is an opt-in system.  Therefore anyone who wants to be able to read them can easily do so, without needing to see them on LJ.

Most of my LJ friends on Twitter have the courtesy to recognise the opt-in nature of Twitter and do not put their Twitter postings where people who have chosen not to subscribe to Twitter would be forced to wade through them.

Therefore (with some regret) I am about to remove two very nice and interesting people from my default reading list because I am fed up of their endless Twitter posts.  I love reading their LJ posts, especially telynor who has managed the amazing feat of making me interested in reading about knitting, but I do not want to read any more Twitter.

Comments

[emmzzi.livejournal.com]

munchkinstein has managed to find a way to put his behind cuts, so it is less annoying.

But I am with you 100%.

[telynor.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that the Twitter posts annoy you that much. I used to put them behind cut tags until folks asked me to stop doing it. I do my best not to, say, live-tweet television shows (which is deeply annoying); rather, I think of them as a way to keep track of my day and what I would like to write about, particularly when I am out of the office or have no time to write anything longer. They often become the subject of more in-depth posts later. As often, they are quick thoughts which do not need to become the subject of in-depth posts, but which strike me as interesting at the time. LoudTwitter ships my twitter posts, not including replies to other twitter users (so folks reading don't see one-sided conversations) once per day, at 4:00 in the morning.

I'll continue to read your journal, as I'm having a great time getting to know you, and I look forward to the next time we'll see one another.

[gaspodex.livejournal.com]

Thats why I've said on my LJ i'm not going to feed my twiter back here - LJ and Twitter serve differnt purposes - It also really annoys me when people tweet back to LJ.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Your courtesy was what inspired me to make the post.

[cdave]

I agree that they're annoying, and haven't heard a singe good reason for doing it, but removing them from you view when you enjoy their other posts seems a bit extreme.

My brain seems to have become trained to the loud twitter format, such that if I saw it when I wasn't on Live Journal, my scrolling finger would probably twitch in a Pavlovian response.

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I've been contemplating doing the same thing, because the endless Twitter posts annoy the crap out of me. I don't even read them. My brain and eyes just see the format and go into ignore mode.

[emmzzi.livejournal.com]

A friend just posted this

http://matgb.livejournal.com/354073.html

the code seems very easy - I just installed it. it leaves you a twitter header but cuts all of the actual tweets.

Would this help?

[oreouk.livejournal.com]

Handy - thanks for the link - I have added that to my LJ and expect it to help. As you say, one still sees that a Twitter has been posted but you no longer see the twitter text so it's easier for the eyes to slide over it.

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

Ooh, excellent, they're *gone*

[lonemagpie.livejournal.com]

Neither sweetheartwhale nor myself will *ever* use twitter. What's the point of something that limits you to 140 characters, so you can't ramble or creat?

[philbradley.livejournal.com]

That's perhaps not really the point of Twitter though.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

We've managed to get most people to put them behind cuts, but yes, I agree, twitter in LJ is absolutely maddening.

[piersb.livejournal.com]

I had to delete someone as a friend from facebook because they were piping a list of whatever-they-were-listening-to-at-the-time into their status updates.

Maddening.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

I only really visit Facebook to play Scrabble, so I never look at status updates, but I can imagine how annoying that could be. (Spam is spam)