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Pursuant to my post from the other day, there’s an important difference between Twitter and blogging that isn’t immediately apparent until you’ve been at it a little bit. Blogs are like lectures with q&a afterwards … you tack up a message and it may or may not generate discussion.

Twitter, on the other hand, is like a cocktail party, where you get to choose who the other attendees are (and you get to invite as many celebrities as you want). Twitter is something you jump into, swim around in while you’re there, and jump back out again.

This is why the utilities that dump out your day’s worth of tweets to your journal fall flat on their face — there’s no context. It’s like listening to half of a phone conversation, and if you’ve ever been subjected to that, you know just how much fun it really is. (I grew up with it, and believe me, it’s slightly less fun than trying to sleep with a chirping cricket in the room.)

It’s also why, although I’m a pretty prolific twit, I don’t do the “Here are my collected tweets!” posts. I do have a small feed on my homepage as a teaser, and also to let people know my feed is there if they’re interested. But I don’t expect people to actually want to read through all of my previous tweets any more than I’d expect people to want to listen to MP3s of random sentences I say to people around me all day. Twitter’s a conversational medium, not a literary one.

-The Gneech

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Date: 2010-04-16 03:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bjbuttons.livejournal.com
I am one of those that auot dumps my tweets during the day over th my LJ. But I also place the tweets behind a cut tag so those that don't care to read them don't have to. I will say this, while I can make Lj posts from the cell phone, I have a Palm Pre, so I can use a LJ client or the web page, both suck very much. The twitter client I have for the phone is much better and much easier to use. Most if all of my tweets most days are things I would normally save up during the day and post in my LJ anyway. once I got home. So in my case, the dump of my tweets basically look like what one of my LJ posts would look like anyway. and I am still making more meaningful long form posts as time permits.

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