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

[frotz.livejournal.com]

"Defriending" as a term has much more emotional baggage than it should.

A while ago, I'd have said, "sure, twitter away", but I've recently realized that I've been reading almost no livejournal, and twitter is most of the reason. So now I'm busy either getting on their no-twitter filters or punting them from my default reading list. (For someone less interested in learning the mechanics of livejournal, "not reading by default" would mean "defriending".)

You're actually about the best of the lot, and if nothing else happened I'd just keep reading you, but if you had a filter for it i'd still ask to get off of it. (But if you were to bow to my every whim, I'd first have you enable comments here on all postings, in which case you'd have gotten a long geeky comment a while ago about maintaining a small AFS cell. Which isn't actually that much of a bear, and I've been meaning to send mail instead. One of these days.)

[penk.livejournal.com]

So why not click through and comment there? Is there really any difference?