How Twitter spoils stuff…

Firstly, this morning Twitter REALLY spoiled bandwidthblog.com’s scoop. Thats another story altogether. My main gripe is that it is spoiling the kick-ass Friendfeed feeds. Sure, I’m pretty much tuned in on Twitter, so by the time it gets to Friendfeed its old news, but have a look at this and tell me if this makes sense AT ALL:

I’m sorry, but this just makes zero sense. It makes some A-listers look like complete nut cases talking in an elitist language of their own… Even clicking through to a user’s Twitter profile you still end up more confused that cat vomit in a tumble dryer.

I’d love to appeal to all Friendfeed users: Please remove your Twitter accounts from your feed if you are using anything but the web to update Twitter. Pretty please, with sugar on top!

If you don’t know what Twitter is at all, see this:

Thank you, Justin!

7 Comments to "How Twitter spoils stuff…"

• Vincent Maher said: On 03/18/2008 at 11:12 am

  Watching that video you’d actually think Twitter was a well-thought-out idea and pretty cool

• Charl van Niekerk said: On 03/18/2008 at 11:27 am

  Ok, I had to sit down and think for a while about this particular post, but I think I understand what you’re trying to say now: Twitter is becoming much like a chat application instead of microblogging. Vhata also mentioned something like that a week or so back.

  If you ask me we should just go back to using IRC and use Twitter for what it’s supposed to be used.

• Stii said: On 03/18/2008 at 12:05 pm

  @Charl Well, yes and no. I love Twitter even though it is being used as an IRC2.0 app. The problem with that is it pretty much renders it useless everywhere else. Still, I think you might be right on the IRC thing, although, then I’d probably stop using Twitter.

  I honestly love Twitter. Yet I hate what it is doing to everything else. If it sound weird and confusing, don’t worry, so am i.

  Oh, and welcome back!

• Flurry of tweets in FriendFeed | chilibean said: On 03/18/2008 at 12:56 pm

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• Neville Newey said: On 03/18/2008 at 1:22 pm

  Nice post Stii.

  One advantage twitter has over IRC (when twitter is used as IRC) is that you can jump into a conversation even though you haven’t been on and easily see what was said before.

  WIth IRC you cannot login and get recent history (sure there are some extensions that log IRC to html but these are few and far between)

  I love them both, I am always in 2 or 3 IRC sessions plus refreshing my twitter page (I use twitter through the web mostly)

  I should be more active on twitter

  Cheers

• stii.za.net » Blog Archive » Yes, Twitter is indeed a chat service! said: On 03/18/2008 at 2:14 pm

  [...] sorry Paul, I’m also going to be a bit sticky about this. See, the thing is this. If Twitter was not meant to be a chat service, then they should [...]

• 24.com launches Answer.it, gets deeper into the social web said: On 04/22/2008 at 7:40 am

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