Feeds, Twitter, Tumblr and I am annoying People
At first I was super gung-ho about displaying all my feeds in tumblr.
Wow, I can show the world everything I am doing (were my original thoughts).
But then it became too much. Every time I twittered I was sending out a “Hansen Report”, but really it was horrible since the title was my twitter and the accompanying text was my twit. Really pathetic.
I think I am going for the less is more mantra now. I’d rather have a real blog posting that makes sense and send that out three times a week than sending out 20 annoying twits per week with little to no substance.
Thats where we are all heading: something in the middle ground between an all inclusive posting and a brevity stricken twitter alert. Instead of 140 characters we need a 400 character limit. A mid-cap twitter company concept that incorporates pictures, sound, video clips and thats optimized for smart blackberries and iphones. That would be a huge success.
Right now there are a bunch of twitter add ons that require you to email your pictures (TwitPic) or workout your tiny url. These are a nuisance and annoying.
We even have TwitterSnooze, made by Andrew Parker in response to how annoying twits can become when your friend go overboard on the twitter concept.
People intuitively want to show how smart, quick or informed they are through their twitters. This is burdensome to a technology circle already super-saturated with information. I liken it to “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. But I would change out “nice” with “substantive”.
Maybe that defies the ‘anything goes’ mantra of twitter, but if it wants to grow or keep being an active participant in how we are using short text messages to interact than something has got to give.
2 weeks ago