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Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

Alex Ezell — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:01:50 -0000

Not to belabor the point. It's not a problem between URLtea or TinyURL. It's a problem with any URL shortening service. It removes any context that a reader might glean from the URL itself.

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

Dave — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:20:19 -0000

@Marina & John: Thanks guys. I really appreciate your input. I'm kind of leaning towards shutting them off too.

@Alex: I wonder if TinyURL is a better option then? Not sure off hand. It's a really valid point I didn't consider. Thanks.

@Bob: Hmm, you might have something there. I wonder if there is a way to publish the daily digests directly to a page in WordPress, rather than a post. That way they are still available, but don't show up in the feed. Hmm...

Thanks guys! You all rock for commenting.

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

Alex Ezell — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:56:59 -0000

One reason I'm not a fan of the Tweets in the blog is because the links are all URLTea links. So, without clicking them, I have no context in which to anticipate what that link might be. In addition, those URLTea links destroy any Google connection between your blog and the things to which you are linking.

So, really, my issue might be with URLTea, which I can deal with in the context of Twitter, but not in a blog post.

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

BobGoyetche — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:34:54 -0000

to be honest - I'm not a fan. In the RSS feed when I see someone's tweet-summary, I skip it right away. Often, it's because it's only half a conversation, and who has the time to track the other half down... it's funny, what makes a great 140character tweet often makes a lousy middle sentence in a stack of (often unrelated) tweets.

My interaction with twitter has been more off than on recently, and to see it clutter my rss reader is a pain.

That being said, I do still see a value to it, for links, for situations like Nico showed above - but I do find it makes for an uninteresting blog read. And the desire for google juice is understandable..

If there was a way to see the RSS without the tweets, that'd be cool.. Maybe categories or something?

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

John Wall — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:13:25 -0000

Sorry, I'm a hater, I can follow people on twitter, and when I'm there I want to know what you are up to RIGHT NOW. What was twittered last week is of no interest at all to me.

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

Marina @ Sufficient Thrust — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:09:06 -0000

I vote no. I follow you on Twitter and I subscribe to your RSS feed, and I think each has its own place. I try to limit replication as much as I can in my life, and I think it makes more sense to leave tweets in their medium and posts in theirs.

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

Dave — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:46:01 -0000

Ha! Sean. Fair enough.
Cheers.

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

Sean — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:33:54 -0000

Dave,

I'm abstaining from voting until I better understand. I'll figure it out!

Sean

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

Dave — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:14:01 -0000

Thanks for you input Nico. Good to know. I'm quite curious what the majority of people think about regarding this.

I see you're heading to PodCamp Boston. I wish I was going to be there. Next time.

Cheers,
Dave

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

Tim Coyne — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:11:54 -0000

I don't see how it could hurt as long as your blog is more than tweets -- and clearly it is.

Keep it up.

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

Nico — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:11:02 -0000

I don't mind. I think once I even replied to a tweet from you I missed on one of these posts.