Twitter

[ciphergoth]

I joined Twitter. I'm toying with the idea of filtering for quality a lot less when I post to Twitter - forward every link that briefly entertains me, Twitter about the slightest minutae of the day that amuses me to share. I generally find it hard to post now for some reason unless I think I've something worth posting, which is one reason why nearly all of my posts are public.

Those of you who have been there a while - what sort of Twittering is too much, outside the range of Twitter etiquette? Please don't say "post what you like" unless that's just what you mean - I do want to know what people actually think.

(Oh, also I might decide to do it and then not get around to it...)

Comments

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I think four times a day is fine. I used to find people who twittered more than that irritating, but now I follow a few very verbose twitterers and actually it turns out to be fine; I just never bother to catch up with twitter. But I do think some people prefer to follow people who don't twitter too often.

Also, you should mind the content of twitters; I am, for example, interested in the fact that you have acquired new hens, and that they have laid their first egg. But daily egg reports become wearing. (I'm mentioning this because I think the chances that the perpetrator is on your friends list is quite small). The trick with twitter is to avoid the routine.

I twitter less than I should. The other day, I clearly should have twittered "Things you don't often see on your way to work; a double decker bus impaled in the front of McDonalds". But I didn't think of it till later.