Comments on: Proper Form Applies In 140 Characters or Less As Well

By: Emma Dozier

Emma Dozier — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:10:34 +0000

U is probably my biggest pet peeve in the texting and tweeting world. Because when I’m talking to “you” I want to show “you” that “you” are important enough and worth all three characters. Or something. :)

By: Rufus

Rufus — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:26:20 +0000

New Twitters will do to the airlines what newbie travelers did. For years and years, business and experienced flyers all “knew” the rules, the “proper form” of travel. How to wait at a gate, how to walk with luggage, how to pack, what luggage MEANS, the rules of deplaning, the rules of boarding…. casual travelers shook up air travel — and not in a good way. But, the recession is making things all right again as the people who should not have been flying are no longer.

Twitter will go through a swell of new people who do not respect the community enough to learn about it, will change it, kill it or get bored with it, then move on. Whether the community will have the patience to weather the disruption remains to be seen. My guess is they will not and quietly move on.

By: Lihsa

Lihsa — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:41:54 +0000

If you can’t say it in 140 characters or less, its not worth retweeting.

By: Joe LeBlanc

Joe LeBlanc — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:48:27 +0000

Aaron: heh, yeah, that would be an example. ;)

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:45:19 +0000

Joe: Like @NationalDebt? :-p

By: Joe LeBlanc

Joe LeBlanc — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:28:09 +0000

I agree with Joost on people who reply many times in a row, although I notice it with non-celebrities too. It would be nice if you could apply the “turn off replies to people you’re not following” to specific people; “loosely follow” perhaps?

Also, there was one Twitter account I followed for a (short) while that not only simply consumed an RSS feed, but didn’t have links to the articles! Double FAIL. There are some auto-tweets I still follow, but only because they’re doing something unique.

By: Joost Schuur

Joost Schuur — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:51:23 +0000

My biggest pet peeve isn’t related to the 140 limit specifically, but popular twitterers not considering how their twitter frequency scales. I’ve seen ‘celebrities’ @reply dozens of people in a row, pushing other people’s updated down.

Now I know I can turn off replies to people I’m not following, but that’s too restrictive for my taste. Plenty of times, people who twitter at low volume reply back to someone with an interesting comment or link, and I’d lose those too. I realize at some point, you’re not meant to be able to read every single tweet from your followers anymore, but I want to avoid one person using up a page worth of space with their rapid fire tweets.

There’s no good solution here. The current wave of non techie celebs that are joining Twitter see it as a tool to get back in direct touch with their fans, so they’re being polite by replying back to as many people as possible.

It would be great if Twitter (or a Greasemonkey script/Firefox extension) would roll up multiple tweets from the same person in a single item into one with a ‘more’ link to unfold the rest.