Daniel de Kok wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:08:32 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> "Walter Bright" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>>I started one to see how that works out for D. >>>http://twitter.com/WalterBright >> >> Call me a curmudgeon, but does anyone ever read twitters? They seem to >> be enormously popular to write, though I've never understood why. > > I made a Twitter account a while back, just to try. But I really have > difficulty to keep up with other people's tweets: there is no serious > threading whatsoever and 80% of the people tweet about entering/leaving > the train, their meals, etc. As a result, if you have more than a few > friends, it's impossible to catch up with Twitter, unless you make it a > hourly activity.
Although some of those I follow are friends, I really only follow those with a common interest (ie mainly D) - I followed a couple of people that put in really personal stuff, whom I promptly disfollowed. The biggest potential issue as I see it, are "personal" (@nickname) messages that are publicized, since you very often have little or no way to relate to it when they aren't meant for you. -- Lars Ivar Igesund blog at http://larsivi.net DSource, #d.tango & #D: larsivi Dancing the Tango
