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So, you are just re-linking from news site which in turn have links to the actual content so you are leveraging TechCrunch/HackerNews to do a lot of pre-sorting
by kahawe 16y ago
So, you are just re-linking from news site which in turn have links to the actual content so you are leveraging TechCrunch/HackerNews to do a lot of pre-sorting for you - assuming you link to the actual site of course and not HackerNews or TechCrunch - because that would give away your source and make your twittering a bit more useless.
This is my number one reason to avoid twitter: it is just all re-tweets of re-tweets of news sites and almost never any unique, REAL content. It's all just a huge noise floor.
If I want interesting articles without having to wait for someone to twitter it, I'll just follow one of the countless news sites out there - no need to wait for your tweeting and it will benefit the site and community of that site - not just a single person trying to promote themselves by trying to show how they follow the latest news.
- tptacek 16y agoMy Twitter feed has almost none of this "RT's of news sites" stuff going on. I will let you in on my secret: I unfollow people who do that. I unfollow maybe one person every other month now. Twitter isn't "all just a huge noise floor". It's pretty much whatever you make of it. I agree, this person has made of it a pretty crappy ad-hoc news aggregator.
- kahawe 16y agoBetween "RTs of news sites", "I am having a bagel" and absolutely shameless self promoting plugs I just came to the misanthropic conclusion of twitter = noise. I know such generalizations are unfair and a bit closed minded... I can't help it, I am just a bit stuck in the pre "web 2.0" 90s/2000 internet and can sometimes only shake my head at some of those hypes and what's going on these days. But I digress and you are right, I should give it another try and see what I could actually get out of it.