Annual reminder

[scarfman]

If you're one of those who habitually skip Twitter reposts on LJ, but friended me to read journal posts, you may like to know that I signed up at Twitter for the purpose of using it as an LJ client.

Comments

[tempusdominus10.livejournal.com]

...not me! I'm just a casual random lurker!

[abates.livejournal.com]

I tend to skim people's Twitter posts, because they're always like:

* @some_dude That's correct.
* @some_other_dude Why would you even conceive of doing that?
* @another_dude I like the one where they had a fight and then Fred married someone else.

... with no context and only half the conversation. I have nothing against Twitter, as such, but it seems to me that it's more like one giant Instant Messaging type site, rather than a journaling site.

I may have rambled about this before.

Anyway, so far the only way I've found to read Twitter stuff is Google's realtime search, which has a handy "View conversation" under the Tweet results. It doesn't always work perfectly, but most of the time you can get a decent overview of the conversation out of it.