Should they stay or should they go?

[mcroft]

[Poll #1119608]

So, a lot of my recent entries have been from twitter, and I've posted to the Journal less, perhaps as a result of having twitter as an option. There may be other reasons, including getting settled in the new job, house, schedule, etc.

I looked at my page recently and saw how much of it was twitter and wondered if it was redundant. Should I bridge the two, or use them separately? I know that I don't follow both if someone is, for instance, mirroring every post to a blog and LJ. Maybe Twitter is the same way.

I may not make any change, or I may not take the advice of collective wisdom, but I'm wondering what people think.

ETA: I found a new feature in the UI, which lets me turn off response (@SoAndSo) tweets being logged. If that changes your opinion, please feel free to change your vote.

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

LOUDTWITTER IS THE DEVIL.

Shoutin' at the devil... :)

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of you when I made this poll.

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you got rid of the half-conversations, it might be not terrible. Do they have that feature?

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

I checked, and now I see an option to exclude conversations. I'm implementing it regardless of keeping the feature in general.

On preview, so did Ginger. We'll see going forward if it's less devlish.

[gentlyepigrams]

I don't mind seeing your Twitters twice.

I enjoy Loudtwitter posts, but I like statements, too.

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the heck twitter is. All I know is that occasionally my friends' LJ entries are sentence fragments that are referring to things I have not seen/read.

*sigh*

[mcroft.livejournal.com]

Twitter is a microblogging site that allows posts of up to 140 characters. There are clients for computers and cell phones and the web and mechanisms ("@soandso") for indicating when an entry is directed at a prior tweet from someone you're following. See, for example, Mikey's twitter page.

The idea behind loudtwitter is to be the devil roll up all the little things that might be one-line entries into a daily post.

I'll take your reply as a tentative "it's not so good for me and other twitter-free folks".

[greeneyes-rpi.livejournal.com]

I don't necessarily want you to stop twittering. When it comes down to it, any entry is better than no entry, and if I don't understand it, whom does that hurt? Most of the time I realize it's part of an off-LJ conversation and I just move along.

Keep twittering if you feel like it. Like la_directora says, it's your journal, dude.

[goldfired.livejournal.com]

Twitters that reflect on your day in bite-sized chunks can be interesting. Twitters that are a response to someone else's twitter are ... chaff. I imagine there's no way to distinguish between them?

[gentlyepigrams]

I checked and they've added that feature. I've just turned replies off in my feed.

[goldfired.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the journey south you wrote about - but the half conversations seem embarrassingly like eavesdropping. :-)

[la-directora.livejournal.com]

I like having my friends do the daily Twitter to LJ thing because it lets me see things I might not have seen if I haven't gotten over to Twitter in the last 24 hours.

But the reason I voted, "Something else, which I'll explain in the comments," is that my real answer is, "Dude, it's your LJ and your Twitters. Do what you want. No one else gets a vote."

[shadowflyer.livejournal.com]

I'm of two minds about Twitter, much the way your Twitter content is of two categories: 1) one-line observations that make some sense standing alone, and B) conversation fragments that I can sometimes piece together from other people's twitters and sometimes not. When you and imlass were on the road, it was kind of fun following your progress by way of the one-line observations. But lately the conversation fragments dominate, and that's just confusing and awkward.

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

Its really your choice. I generally don't read the LoudTwitter entries, however, I can see the value of you broadcasting to that (so they can be more easily archived together with your journal).

[la-directora.livejournal.com]

This right here is exactly how I feel about any questions of, "What should I post to my blog/LJ/Twitter?" I post what I want to my LJ. I figure it's mostly for my own entertainment value. And I figure my friends are all big kids who have the freedom to decide for themselves if they want to read it. In my opinion, my only responsibility in what I post is to be mindful of the way the friends list thing works, and to put extra-long posts or high-bandwidth images, etc., behind a cut. Even then, if someone doesn't like my posting style, they are more than welcome to remove me from their friends list, or even just from their default reading filter, if they don't like what I do.

I see this whole LJ/blogging thing as having pull filters, not push filters, personally.

[arden-ranger.livejournal.com]

Pretty much what shadowflyer said.

The little observations into your daily lives are neat, but the one sided conversations are lost on me, so I just skip over them. Then again, it is your journal. Post what you want, when you want, and if we read it or not, that's our choice. There are far more things that are far more irritating on my F-list then Twitter entries.

[drelmo.livejournal.com]

I voted no, but "annoy" is harsher than I mean; they're mostly noise to me, but they don't rise any further in annoyance than the noise category. Keep 'em up if you like 'em.

(Turning off the conversation twitters will help a lot in this regard.)

[skywhisperer.livejournal.com]

I merge mine, on the theory that if I'm twittering a lot, it's because I'm too busy to blog.

[sirvalence.livejournal.com]

It's your blog. You should post whatever you want to post. That's the most important thing. That having been said, I have little patience for skipping over posts that I won't read, and since the tweets make no sense to me at all, and there hasn't been much else on your blog for a while, I'd filtered your posts from my reading list. I consider that unfortunate, because you sometimes post things I want to read. (I only knew about this post because I saw Karen reading it.) So please, please, please, do what you want with your blog, but I probably won't read it while most of it is tweets.