I’m trying something new as a way to cover conventions. Since folks may not use Twitter (or follow me), I thought I’d give CoverItLive a try.
If you enjoy experiencing conventions vicariously through the intarwebs, let me know if it’s something you enjoy and would like again in the future.
(If you wouldn’t follow convention coverage anyway, thanks for reading and feel free try try one of our other fine articles about other topics in Geek Life.)
Presenting… DDXP 2010!
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I used to follow your Twitter feed until the sheer amount of “reply spam” got the better of me and I unfollowed. At this stage I haven’t worked out a way to turn that off. I think if you follow someone on Twitter you are doing just that, following THEM, not their replies to every man and his dog who posts a reply to them. Why do I need to see answers to questions I haven’t seen asked?
The RT’s I can understand as you are just passing on something you feel strongly enough about for it to appear in your feed for the benefit of your followers, but why the simple replies? It’s like listening in to one side of someones IM conversation and something that I don’t think Twitter was originally intended for.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not claiming nobody has the right to reply tweet to someone, but until Twitter gives me the option of turning off reply tweets from people I follow, to people I don’t know, then all I can do is unfollow the extreme repliers.
@IronM@sk -
Twitter no longer sends you replies people post unless they’re to other people you’re also following, because sending everything was apparently killing their servers, as the code was inefficient.
At least it won’t send it as long as they’re done through the proper “reply” function. Messages that just start with @xxxx are still shown unless they’re replies.
So they may have fixed your issue for you without realising it?
Oh cool. Thanks Graham