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

[penk.livejournal.com]

The #channel crossposts are odd when people refer to them as, well, channels. To me they're tags, and are useful when used as such. For instance when i was posting Arisia related stuff, I always used the hashtag (as it's colloquially known) in context. "I'm at #arisia chillin with mah bros."

those that are twitter die-hards drop this, and I find their posts unintelligible.