Comments on: TwitterFeed: Yer Doin It Wrong

By: Cheap Textbooks

Cheap Textbooks — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:41:13 +0000

amazing, you have pointed out the right things here. I like your example of “two people conversation”. recently i have just read some twitter books but have not gone over this point.

By: Cheap Textbooks

Cheap Textbooks — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:41:13 +0000

amazing, you have pointed out the right things here. I like your example of “two people conversation”. recently i have just read some twitter books but have not gone over this point.

By: Automation Defeats the Purpose of Social Media | SheenOnline

Automation Defeats the Purpose of Social Media | SheenOnline — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:03:47 +0000

[...] networks completely useless because of the sheer number of people auto-following, auto-replying, pushing RSS feeds as messages, and sending out automated updates. This is not social. This is spam. This is [...]

By: Rahsheen Porter

Rahsheen Porter — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:04:39 +0000

@Kenyaoa It's one thing to share links to things you enjoyed reading or even importing your blog RSS feed, but it's another to just import RSS feeds of what amounts to "random crap"

@Kelly that sound reasonable to me.

@Harald I love that line: "I like the idea of my twitter friends not having to wonder if they're interacting with a robot."

@Shevonne The golden rule always finds it's way back into everything, doesn't it?

Thanks for all your comments

By: kenyaoa

kenyaoa — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:08:35 +0000

I have TwitterFeed check my Flickr feed. It will send two photos at most no matter how many I have uploaded. There are some that seem to load random feeds into TwitterFeed and I have unfollowed them. Why do I want to read an RSS feed of the comments on your blog? Or random iPhone feeds? There are some good uses for it – look at @dcalerts. Otherwise, it's something that should be used in moderation.

By: Harald @ TropicThink

Harald @ TropicThink — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:48:45 +0000

While I wish some of the people I follow would consider using a tiny dose of common sense once in a while and not clog up my twitter stream with a bunch of automated crap, I think most people are using these things in a way that doesn't make others want to drown them in battery acid.

Personally, though, I don't use any form of automation with my twitter stuff, and can't see myself doing so in the future either. That's not because there is something wrong with automation, but rather because I mostly use twitter to meet new people and form relationships and not, as you put it, my personal billboard or feed. I like the idea of my twitter friends not having to wonder if they're interacting with a robot.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:00:37 +0000

I use Twitterfeed for a couple of my blogs. Mine are set up to go out at every hour and only one post gets sent out. However, I don't blog everyday, and when I do, it certainly is not every hour, so most days that I blog you will only see a couple of posts from me come through from Twitterfeed.

By: Shevonne

Shevonne — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:34:01 +0000

I use TwitterFeed, but I have it so it only updates every 24 hours because I would find it annoying if it updated every six hours or so. I consider people who use it just to pump their services/products up in a way that is purely propoganda as spammers and quickly unfollow. I treat people the way I want to be treated. Wonderful post!