Comments on: Tweets In The Rear View Mirror May Appear More Numerous Than They Are

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:09:51 +0000

ah yes – i did set that and just forgot about it. ‘The @ Replies setting can be confusing. Read the help article if you’re unsure.’ ded right

By: Lennie

Lennie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:02:38 +0000

I’ve been wondering if the noise produced by twitter is actually one of the positives. If you can easily identify the tweets you want then the rest provide a background. I follow three or four people just because I don’t know them, its like over hearing strangers conversations in a bar.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:59:49 +0000

You can change your settings to that you can or can’t see replies people make to people you don’t follow. If you turn it on you get lots of half-conversations which can be voyeuristically interesting!

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:56:08 +0000

“I read with @replies on”

see i don’t even know what this means. i only use the ipod client and it’s not all that sophisticated.

By: poohugh

poohugh — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:47:15 +0000

#1: me too, slowly cutting them down.
I think the way that you use twitter can depend on what product you use to update it/scour it (I sniggered to myself when i saw that Boyd Hilton (for it is he) updates his straight off the web! Lolz.). I use twitterfox which suits my very unorganic, something’s just popped up way of using it, to feed into my river of news much like my RSS reader does. The clinical look of tweetdeck fills me with dread, and would seem to take much of the haphazardness of the whole thing.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:34:19 +0000

I am just about getting used to the fact that if stuff happens when I’m asleep I don’t have to check back on it…otherwise I try and read everything (though I don’t follow every link, obviously).

Mind you I read with @replies on.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:11:41 +0000

I suspect that if a statistical survey were done, it would show that people using Tweetdeck were chattier than most – as the Tweetdeck screen divides into three equal columns for tweets, @replies and DMs. When I started on Twitter in late 2006, too much @replying was seen as bad form. Then they added a preference setting, allowing you to block other people’s @replies to people you don’t follow – and then along came the apps – and now it’s almost seen as bad form NOT to @reply your friends on a regular basis.

My biggest assumption – and I know perfectly well that it’s a false one – is that everyone else reads pretty much 100% of their friends’ tweets. (I unfollow as many as I follow, in order to keep my “following” total hovering at around 60 – which might make me look rude to some, but if I’m following you then I do at least pay you the courtesy of properly following you, and reading everything you post.)

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:30:47 +0000

i’m just about to stop following some of the chattier twit-celebs