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

[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.