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	<title>Comments on: Twitter Revolution Will Not be Televised</title>
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		<title>By: Matthew Stinson</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/twitter_revolution_will_not_be_televised/comment-page-1/#comment-532036</link>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Stinson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>James, I&#039;d call those tweets bacn, not spam. You choose to see those Tweets from web services and bloggers you enjoy, but overuse of Twitterfeed and auto-posting will flood your Twitter account with their Tweets, reducing the fun of Twitter, just like everyone&#039;s favorite bacn, Facebook notifications.

My advice to everyone using Twitterfeed is to limit high-volume Tweeting. If you blog ten times a day at different hours, then having all of those posts go to Twitter is okay.  If you blog up a storm though you&#039;ll flood us with links, which is kind of annoying.  What&#039;s more annoying, arguably, is promiscuous Twitterfeed-ing from web services like last.fm, delicious, etc. I use Twitterfeed to send those to my Twitter account but limit it to about two tweets per 12 hours. This ensures that most of my tweets will be ones I&#039;m writing directly rather than mere aggregation of the nonsense in my life that most people could care less about.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James, I'd call those tweets bacn, not spam. You choose to see those Tweets from web services and bloggers you enjoy, but overuse of Twitterfeed and auto-posting will flood your Twitter account with their Tweets, reducing the fun of Twitter, just like everyone's favorite bacn, Facebook notifications.</p>
<p>My advice to everyone using Twitterfeed is to limit high-volume Tweeting. If you blog ten times a day at different hours, then having all of those posts go to Twitter is okay.  If you blog up a storm though you'll flood us with links, which is kind of annoying.  What's more annoying, arguably, is promiscuous Twitterfeed-ing from web services like last.fm, delicious, etc. I use Twitterfeed to send those to my Twitter account but limit it to about two tweets per 12 hours. This ensures that most of my tweets will be ones I'm writing directly rather than mere aggregation of the nonsense in my life that most people could care less about.</p>
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		<title>By: Rick Almeida</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/twitter_revolution_will_not_be_televised/comment-page-1/#comment-531888</link>
		<dc:creator>Rick Almeida</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Every week or so, check out &quot;Sockington&quot; on Twitter.  Pretty entertaining tweets from the perspective of a housecat.

That&#039;s really not as lame as it seems.

Honest.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every week or so, check out "Sockington" on Twitter.  Pretty entertaining tweets from the perspective of a housecat.</p>
<p>That's really not as lame as it seems.</p>
<p>Honest.</p>
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		<title>By: James Joyner</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/twitter_revolution_will_not_be_televised/comment-page-1/#comment-531875</link>
		<dc:creator>James Joyner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;There are 12 tweets there but only 4 of them have been written out and of those one of them is a retweet from me (someone else&#039;s material), while the remaining 8 tweets are all automatically fed into Twitter from outside sources, mostly through Twitterfeed.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

While these are potentially bad, from a spam perspective, they can also be useful.  Quickly scanned links can be handy. 

My Twitterfeed blog post links are generally the entirety of my Twitter output and yet I&#039;m adding followers all the time.  Some people apparently prefer that medium to RSS, even though I&#039;m not among them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>There are 12 tweets there but only 4 of them have been written out and of those one of them is a retweet from me (someone else's material), while the remaining 8 tweets are all automatically fed into Twitter from outside sources, mostly through Twitterfeed.</p></blockquote>
<p>While these are potentially bad, from a spam perspective, they can also be useful.  Quickly scanned links can be handy. </p>
<p>My Twitterfeed blog post links are generally the entirety of my Twitter output and yet I'm adding followers all the time.  Some people apparently prefer that medium to RSS, even though I'm not among them.</p>
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		<title>By: charles austin</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/twitter_revolution_will_not_be_televised/comment-page-1/#comment-531869</link>
		<dc:creator>charles austin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oogedy-boogedy Twitter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oogedy-boogedy Twitter.</p>
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		<title>By: tom p</title>
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		<dc:creator>tom p</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;twitter&quot;... that&#039;s what the birds outside my window do. 
I have a cellphone, and e-mail. If you want to talk to me, call me. I&#039;ll decide then if I want to talk to you. E-mail, is communication at our convenience. What else does one need?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>"twitter"... that's what the birds outside my window do.<br />
I have a cellphone, and e-mail. If you want to talk to me, call me. I'll decide then if I want to talk to you. E-mail, is communication at our convenience. What else does one need?</p>
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		<title>By: Matthew Stinson</title>
		<link>http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/twitter_revolution_will_not_be_televised/comment-page-1/#comment-531865</link>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Stinson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, the snapshot you posted illustrates one of the problems with Twitter and why it&#039;s an imperfect substitute for a blog: it&#039;s more like email than blogging, and it has more than its fair share of spam plus lots and lots of bacn, things you sign up for but aren&#039;t always useful.

There are 12 tweets there but only 4 of them have been written out and of those one of them is a retweet from me (someone else&#039;s material), while the remaining 8 tweets are all automatically fed into Twitter from outside sources, mostly through Twitterfeed.  The communication potential of Twitter is often muted by the noise that overwhelms the signal.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, the snapshot you posted illustrates one of the problems with Twitter and why it's an imperfect substitute for a blog: it's more like email than blogging, and it has more than its fair share of spam plus lots and lots of bacn, things you sign up for but aren't always useful.</p>
<p>There are 12 tweets there but only 4 of them have been written out and of those one of them is a retweet from me (someone else's material), while the remaining 8 tweets are all automatically fed into Twitter from outside sources, mostly through Twitterfeed.  The communication potential of Twitter is often muted by the noise that overwhelms the signal.</p>
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