Comments on: Two Twitters, one Daniel

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:08:24 +0000

It really is an odd thing that so many people use it in this way, but they do. I thought, at first, the whole "I'm doing this so join me" type update would be great. And, in actuality, about 5 times I've managed to meet up with people solely because of twitter interaction. But, for the most part, it really is like sitting around in an IRC channel all day and talking about everything but really nothing.

And, as far as RSS for the other goes... YES... I agree. I only started using it in this fashion because so many other people wish to follow this way that it seemed appropriate to do so. People tend to enjoy instant notification in a reverse chronological format with no hierarchy more so than they do something orderly and easy to use like, say, Google Reader. I have Google Reader FULL of stuff to read. But the truth is, if you announce your blog entries on Twitter, I'm more likely to read them RIGHT NOW. Google Reader I'll get to some time this week. But... with RSS I'm guarantee I'll see it eventually. With Twitter, if I'm really busy, whatever happened during that window of time get quickly skimmed and then tossed out.

Such a strange, yet seemingly common, usage pattern.

By: Josh-D. S. Davis

Josh-D. S. Davis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:15:07 +0000

Neither of these match what twitter is functionally adept for.

I mean, an RSS feed does what your #1 does. Any blog software can do that better.

#2 is something I just don't get. The truly mundane things don't matter so much as to need instantaneous replies.

IMHO, twitter would have been great for "let's all meet at blah", or "OMFG MY FOOT WAS CUT OFF!" It's effectively a group list for SMS. Instead, it amounts to "Stop what you're doing and listen to me describe my poop in 160 characters or less!"

I honestly can't fathom why people dig that, but there are plenty of people who do.

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:08:24 +0000

By: Josh-D. S. Davis

Josh-D. S. Davis — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:15:07 +0000

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:20:36 +0000

In exchange, I'll take a squeeze of the breast of the next woman you manage to con into your bed. :)

By: facebook-518865054

facebook-518865054 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:18:35 +0000

Thank you — this pleases me greatly. And we all know that it's all about me.

By: Jim Reverend

Jim Reverend — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:12:08 +0000

The separation is both good and bad for me. Good because it'll let me make some chatter that should probably be private more private. But bad because I have to deal with two accounts. It shouldn't be TOO bad, though, since most of the "revjimweb" stuff is automated and the "revjim" is manual and checked / updated as I have time through the day.

I'm not sure about the "default" option there. I don't get to pick the default, so I'm guessing it defaults to on. But, it also seems to remember my last choice for the next comment, so, who knows.

Once I get the kinks worked out, you should see very little if any duplicates.

And, if the Disqus swap worked, then this should come from "revjimweb". We'll see.

By: FarrisGoldstein

FarrisGoldstein — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:49:26 +0000

I'm following both. I always follow all of your stuff. I actually didn't have a problem with seeing everything in revjim, I was just slightly annoyed that "Tweet this comment as @you" was the default in your disqus form.

I still don't see a huge need for this type of separation, and if I start seeing duplicate stuff on both of these I will be, again, only slightly annoyed.