Dan Cameron: Noise: Twitter, Pownce and FriendFeed
JaredB
· 1 year ago
Yeah, I think having a consolidated place for everything (like FriendFeed) is the correct approach to addressing the issue of allowing people to easily follow everything you're doing.
As opposed to cross-posting, which is always, always bad. :-)
Even for twitter - I commented a while ago about starting an anti-twitterfeed campaign, and I was only half joking; half joking because I do feel like one needs to be started, but I'm not going to do it.
Twitter already provides a place where you can specify an external URL, so that you can easily direct people to your presence outside of Twitter (whether it be to your blog or to FriendFeed, etc.).
I'd even go farther and venture to guess that every single person who's interested in following you in Twitter is also well aware of how to discover your other content sources and subscribe to them via RSS.
It always bugs me when I see Twitter posts with blog excerpts and then a link to the blog post. If I want to subscribe to your blog, I (and everyone else and their grandmothers, at least if they're using Twitter) can already do that.
If someone posts something really cool on their blog (or wherever) that they just can't resist sharing about on Twitter, then they could at least make the message Twitter appropriate, by which I mean a standard "tweet" that fits in (and forms a complete thought in) the space alloted followed by a link, instead of a hardcoded excerpt of the first few words of the post which almost never makes sense out of context, which is what you usually get from twitterfeed. I've stopped following some people on Twitter for that reason - those things are just to jumbled and messy looking.
Mike Arrington's use of Twitter when linking to TechCrunch is an example of what I'm talking about in terms of how I think the etiquette of linking to blog posts from Twitter should work: #1 - It's not automatic, not for every post. #2 - It's not a meaningless excerpt, it's a brief, Twitter-targeted message, followed by the link
Of course this is all my humble personal opinion, and judging by the popularity of Twitterfeed, there are plenty of people who obviously disagree with me, but that's my two cents...
Dan Cameron
· 1 year ago
Originally Pownce was to replace Twitter for my micro-blogging and since both serve two different mediums and crowds twitterfeed is the only way to get my twitter status updated without posting in two places.
I just hate having more then one source for my micro-posts/status updates. It's just annoying that I have to decide what medium to use instead of using Pownce for everything.
So, I'll probably just stop using twitter altogether. Since, I still prefer Pownce over twitter and it has nothing to offer me.
JaredB
· 1 year ago
Congrats on getting back to blogging more, BTW. As you know, I do prefer blogs (over Pownce) for these types of discussions.
JaredB
· 1 year ago
PS - Are you going to point your Twitter URL to FriendFeed, or leave it pointed here?
Dan Cameron
· 1 year ago
my twitter url?
JaredB
· 1 year ago
Yeah, I just mean the one that you include in your profile; shows up as "Web" on your Twitter page.
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As opposed to cross-posting, which is always, always bad. :-)
Even for twitter - I commented a while ago about starting an anti-twitterfeed campaign, and I was only half joking; half joking because I do feel like one needs to be started, but I'm not going to do it.
Twitter already provides a place where you can specify an external URL, so that you can easily direct people to your presence outside of Twitter (whether it be to your blog or to FriendFeed, etc.).
I'd even go farther and venture to guess that every single person who's interested in following you in Twitter is also well aware of how to discover your other content sources and subscribe to them via RSS.
It always bugs me when I see Twitter posts with blog excerpts and then a link to the blog post. If I want to subscribe to your blog, I (and everyone else and their grandmothers, at least if they're using Twitter) can already do that.
If someone posts something really cool on their blog (or wherever) that they just can't resist sharing about on Twitter, then they could at least make the message Twitter appropriate, by which I mean a standard "tweet" that fits in (and forms a complete thought in) the space alloted followed by a link, instead of a hardcoded excerpt of the first few words of the post which almost never makes sense out of context, which is what you usually get from twitterfeed. I've stopped following some people on Twitter for that reason - those things are just to jumbled and messy looking.
Mike Arrington's use of Twitter when linking to TechCrunch is an example of what I'm talking about in terms of how I think the etiquette of linking to blog posts from Twitter should work:
#1 - It's not automatic, not for every post.
#2 - It's not a meaningless excerpt, it's a brief, Twitter-targeted message, followed by the link
Of course this is all my humble personal opinion, and judging by the popularity of Twitterfeed, there are plenty of people who obviously disagree with me, but that's my two cents...
I just hate having more then one source for my micro-posts/status updates. It's just annoying that I have to decide what medium to use instead of using Pownce for everything.
So, I'll probably just stop using twitter altogether. Since, I still prefer Pownce over twitter and it has nothing to offer me.