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

[randysmith]

Your second option to your second question implies that there's some way for me to read your blog without the twitter feeds? How could I do that? I lack the clue.

(Note: I'm actually happier with your twitter feeds than I am with most. But my life satisfaction would not be noticeably affected if they dissapeared, and there are other twitter feeds that are negative side of neutral (but not enough for me to get even annoyed about it). But I'm curious about the technology :-}.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

There are apps that allow you to block all posts with the word "twitter" in them. I know a number of people that use them. They don't even know this post exists. Some of them are even on twitter and hate the cross-pollenation *that* much.