The anti-Twitter-feed forces are mobilizing.

[penk]

I'm seeing folks getting more and more annoyed about twitter feeds into Livejournal, to the point where people are defriending people who are doing it, and it's puzzling me.

I've heard various arguments for this behavior, but I want to hear folks' actual thoughts on it.

Here's where I stand.

Twitter is a micro-blogging service. It allows very quick comments about things that are going on in my life, and allows me to see what others are doing. I feed my tweets into LJ because I thought others might like to hear what I'm up to.

For instance, if I'm sitting and enjoying a break from skiing, I post a tweet about it while sitting in the lodge. That evening, folks see that I was out skiing today, and they have a little more visibility into what I'm doing with my days.

I am not blind to the fact that some twitter feeds can be annoying and lack context, in particular when there are conversations going on that LJ people are only hearing one side of - I personally try to limit how much I do this.

But I'm curious what is really driving this anti-twitter-feed sentiment, so, natch, here's a poll!

[Poll #1337757]

Comments

[dbang.livejournal.com]

Actually for the second part, I would have wanted an option that said "Put it on an opt-in filter and I won't opt in".

I also might choose "kill the entire feed", except that it's annoying not pissing me off. And of course I am free not to read. I don't get pissed at what other people do in their LJs, I just choose not to read if they aren't interesting to me.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

As I've said elsewhere, it's far more annoying when I want to go read a post they made two weeks ago, and there are 14 Twitter posts in between. Regardless of how often someone posts to their lj, there are times when there are several twitter posts in a row and it just looks...odd.

I think if people actually want to read your twitter posts in lj, they'll set up an RSS feed to do so.

[catya.livejournal.com]

the opt in filter would be a perfect answer. I don't think that it's an option technically though?

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that Twitter has a mechanism to automatically post your tweets to a filter so that it can be easily filtered.

[dbang.livejournal.com]

As in, LJ doesn't support automatic opt in filters? That's true, you have to manually set up your filters to include whoever you want on them.

[catya.livejournal.com]

I thought twitter didn't let you feed to a filter, but Jude just said otherwise...