The LoudTwitter Blues

[brynndragon]

Someone has made a fantastic post on LoudTwitter - all I can say about it is IAWTC. I've been running a friend's Greasemonkey script (LJ Twitterless) for a while now and if it wasn't for that I'd've probably dropped a few of you by now. At this point there's only one person who regularly has LT posts that get past the script (it misses empty LT posts but those are pretty rare) and I'm trying to decide what to do about it - I've noticed that I no longer bother to look at his posts at all because I've been trained to expect useless twitter posts (which a large portion of them are) and thus gotten into the habit of scrolling past anything he LJs, a variant on the "ignoring the car alarm" theme.

ETA: I forgot I have another Greasemonkey script, LJ Filter, that will let me filter out by tag or word-in-post posts by a specific LJer! So the problem mentioned above is now entirely solved :).

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Twitter is useful in its space and context. Robbed of that context, it becomes meaningless.

A friend of mine just installed a script which posted his IM status to his Facebook every time it changed; this was equally useless. "[name] is away from his desk." "[name] is available." "[name] is away from his desk." "[name] is available." All day long. Had to filter him.

Just because you can automate something doesn't mean you should. I wonder what's next -- GPS -> LJ? "I am at 42.367038, -71.258698" "I am at 40.689195, -74.044601".

[laurion]

learnedax and I were just discussing things like this last night. We want Twitter posts (and I'm active twitter user) to be more in the ephemeral, and LT instead pushes them into a realm of less ephemerality. (I've had to make the context/nature of Twitter/LJ argument a half a dozen times in the past year in different journal comment threads) Ideally, Tweets would autokill after 24 hours or so, when the chance of any relevance to the reader is almost nil. It would also be cool if you could manually set an expiry date/time, so that if you're tweeting about going to the diesel later today, the post can kill itself in 6 hours, but if you're tweeting about your housewarming party next week, it can stick around until next week....

Essentially building on the existing tagging notions to bring another form of metacontext into play.