Twitterfail!

[panik]

Twitter have just destroyed the very reason most people enjoy using it. The net is, predictably, on fire. There's already a website about it.
You know, there's a saying, don't fix what ain't broke. LJ could use a dose of that maxim too.  And thus, a bad morning is made worse. ::Sigh:: Life, why must you try me so?

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Followed the link, did not understand a word. Might have been in Chinese....

But then I have never got into twittering or whatever they call it, so not au fait with t'jargon, probably.

Ah. OK, well...

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

::shrug:: if you don't twitter I don't suppose you're going to care much anyweay. Basically, if you're friended to someone you see everything they say. Twitter have changed this so you only see original posts and the posts to people you already kow. Since the joy of twitter is that it's a great spider-web of contact - I follow Stephen Fry so I previously saw everyone he tweeted to'; I can check out their profile and tweets and if I like them, I friend them too. I've friended a lot of people that way, so has everyone lese - now that option is removed, I only see him tweeting to people I already know. What's the point of that?

No one likes it. Everyone's hoping they'll get the message and change it all back asap, if not, I suspect everyone will stop using Twitter and move on.
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invisible twits

[lillytel.livejournal.com]

Im also am not au fay with twitterdom. But do think that i would be silly to automatically hide replies to questions, blogs or other. Surely twitterprofs can add a option where each individual twitter can select to keep their twits private, only meant for the recipient and not public. This would be an individual decision.

dont shoot me if this dont make sense lol i know nuffink.

Lilly

Re: Surely twitterprofs can add a option

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they could but so far they haven't, they've just made this change that has irritated a lot of people.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

You always could hide them. I did for a while because I found some of the traffic overwhelming, but Twitter got really boring that way so I turned it back on.

Dumb.

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

To me, the whole point of Twitter is seeing who others are talking to, investigating them, friending the friends of friends. Without that, what's the point? I think they're backtracking now though, the outcry has been so massive.

[knitty-woman.livejournal.com]

Since you twitter, perhaps you can help me. I want to get twitter updates to my email from a particular columnist I follow. Can I do that with twitter? Or do I have to log on to his ... whatever it's called?

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

There is a service called Tweet Replies which usually resides here:
http://www.tweetreplies.com/
Which you sign up to and they forward updates to your email, but it's been down all the time I've been checking it so don't know if it's still extant. I've never used it myself so I can't say whether it's any good or not, I use Tweet Deck myself.