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<\/div>\nOkay, Twitter 101: You sign up. You find (through various means, more below) various people who are Twittering. You “follow” them, so that their Tweets show up in your message stream (what Twitter somewhat confusingly calls your “timeline”).<\/p>\n
If someone says something you feel warrants a reply, you can reply to them. The reply looks like, “@doycet LOL, you are eating a sammitch on the sofa? ROTFL” (Note: not real reply.)<\/p>\n
Previously, if you were following me, you could see me make that comment to @doycet (that’s Doyce’s Twitter user name) in your message stream. If you were not following Doyce, you wouldn’t have seen the original message that had me rolling in the aisle, but you would have seen my reply …<\/p>\n
… if <\/em>… and this is the big if <\/em>… you’d turned on the option (off <\/em>by default) to do so. Otherwise, you’d have never seen my orphaned reply, either.<\/p>\n Twitter has now taken away that option, feeling it was conflusing. Apparently<\/a>, only 2% of Twitter users actually had it turned on, but they are a vocal 2%, decrying the death of Twitter and noting that these sort of one-sided replies from people they follow were a great way to find additional people to follow.<\/p>\n Um …<\/p>\n Okay, maybe I’m insensitive because I’m part of the 98% that had it turned off. Honestly, I didn’t want to read the umpteen zillion replies that Neil Gaiman makes to people on a daily basis. Well, I might, but I wouldn’t be able to see anything else. On the other hand, Neil (and others) do a great job both retweeting items of interest from others (basically forwarding a Tweet message to their own stream, which shows who originally wrote it), and in mentioning people in their Tweets (sometimes even as a specific recommendation).<\/p>\n Result? I get plenty <\/em>of suggestions of new people to follow from the people I follow, even if I’m not privy to their individual replies to those folks.<\/p>\n I’ll take it a step further — I like<\/em> not having my replies to others show up in my followers’ streams. Not only does it reduce their exposure to spam \/ false followers, but I tend to see those replies as IMs — I know they are (were) theoretically public, but they still felt private.<\/p>\n I will admit that, given a choice, I’d have left the option available to those 2% — I don’t specifically see the harm in it. But I also don’t think Twitter has committed some grievous wrong in doing this, and there is <\/em>a virtue in simplicity and consistency.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I’ve been meaning to talk about my own use of Twitter of late, and this is as good a chance as any.<\/p>\n I’ve found it to be a nice way to make one-off observations, on the fly, that wouldn’t have warranted a full blog post previously (some would have ended up in one, others would not). <\/p>\n The 140 character limit is irksome, but hardly impossible to overcome. Probably good for me. And fun to read — like an ever-changing book of koans, with links.<\/p>\n I very much like that these observations get wrapped up at the end of the day in my blog anyway. It makes it all the more “journally.”<\/p>\n I enjoy reading the bits that come through on my Twitter feed (following 41 people, though only a dozen or so of those Tweet with any consistency). They are an adjunct to other sources of info, and have a light air to them that is quite pleasant. <\/p>\n I like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Huge foofoorah (for those who have any interested) over in the Twitterverse about an option that was taken off by Twitter. And I yawn and say ho-hum. Okay, Twitter 101: You sign up. You find (through various means, more below) various people who are Twittering. You “follow” them, so that their Tweets show up in … Continue reading “OMG, They Killed Twitter! 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