Comments on: Tweet Flow

By: Blaise Alleyne

Blaise Alleyne — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:49:22 +0000

I’m a big fan of Ping.fm. I use it to update MySpace and LinkedIn as status updates (though I started updating MySpace for micro-blog posts as well, since they gained some Twitter envy and adjusted their Facebook-envy home page a bit). Also, Ping.fm just added support for Facebook Pages, so that helps on my musician page. (I also update Brightkite and FriendFeed.)

I blast out general messages through Ping.fm, but for @replies and more targeted conversations I just use the appropriate network (which is why I was hesitate to use the Identi.ca/Twitter bridge — sometimes I’m having a conversation on identi.ca, and not on Twitter).

Big fan of Gwibber, too. I have that setup with Ping.fm as well (though, I often update through Ubiquity).

By: earobinson

earobinson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:48:06 +0000

@jim, hope it was a good book!

By: Jim Campbell

Jim Campbell — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:24:33 +0000

I once mistakenly set things up so that my twitter account updated identi.ca, and identi.ca updated twitter… Yes, my tweets & dents really did go around in a loop. I had about 7 notices indicating that I was reading a certain book before I realized what was going on, and broke the cycle.

By: earobinson

earobinson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:38:00 +0000

I also think its neat to point out that all the open source tools are higher on my tweet flow than the close source ones!

By: earobinson

earobinson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:01:54 +0000

@imbrandon I think that’s a really good point. I know for me before twitter I never used to change my facebook, or pidgin status.

As for replies not making sense, well my facebook status actually filters out all replies, so thats not a problem. My website as you can see in the top right of this page links back to my twitter letting people get up to date on the convo.

Replying on gwibber can reply only to your twitter or identi.ca account.

I do think you make a really good point however, I guess for me I never used to update any of it before and now I do so people can read my status anywhere in my twitter flow and join the conversation. Filtering @ replies from my twitter flow with more than just facebook is something I think I will look into.

By: earobinson

earobinson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:51:51 +0000

@Marius lol I had wondered the same thing!

@Dread Knigh not suer I have always been a gnome guy sry.

By: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:57:53 +0000

@Marius lol

I wonder if there’s something similar for KDE…..
if not, will just use gwibber.. heh

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:05:50 +0000

I’m wondering how long it will take until you (or someone) inadvertently starts an update loop, and what will happen then.

By: imbrandon

imbrandon — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:58:36 +0000

The problem I see with a “tweet” flow like this ( and the reason I dont use a similar flow ) is the MSN and Jabber status are about like the Facebook status and possibly like your website status, all pretty static and serve the flow you intend, to let people know your “status”. But Twitter and Identi.ca are more “conversations” ( abet slower than IRC or IM ) and that flow dosent take that into account for replies and direct messages as they would not make sense to update your IM status with a reply to someone on Twitter. Twitter used as a glorified RSS of your status is wrong IMHO, should be used to engage and interact with your twitter audience like a blog with comments, IMHO blogs with comments disabled are kinda pointless. But whats worse is you cant “turn off” comments in twitter like you can on a blog to atleaste let the party “following” you know you will likely never contribute to the conversation.