Comments on: My Twitter Cycle

By: Kenni Smith

Kenni Smith — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:52:18 +0000

You should consider coming back. A lot’s changed in 3 years!

By: Faculty Academy 2007 » Blog Archive » Rockin Robin

Faculty Academy 2007 » Blog Archive » Rockin Robin — Wed, 30 May 2007 04:05:22 +0000

[...] Well, gosh. Far more insightful people have commented on Twitter at this point. But I need a break from a night of marathon administrative work, and I thought I’d take it that break in my blog by chiming in. [...]

By: Rockin Robin at The Fish Wrapper

Rockin Robin at The Fish Wrapper — Wed, 30 May 2007 03:36:02 +0000

[...] Rockin Robin Published May 29th, 2007 Tags: chat, community, procrastinating, twitter. Tags for this Post:chat, community, procrastinating twitterWell, gosh. Far more insightful people have commented on Twitter at this point. But I need a break from a night of marathon administrative work, and I thought I’d take it that break in my blog by chiming in. [...]

By: Raimo

Raimo — Tue, 29 May 2007 22:09:46 +0000

I miss the midlife Jaiku switch

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 29 May 2007 00:46:35 +0000

I like your style, Scott! We just gotta find some alternative vehicle (preferably one that runs!) to talk about PJ Harvey shows.

Also, I love your comment on D’Arcy’s post on twitter/blogging conversations, nothing short of genius. As they say in The Prisoner, “Be seeing you!” Or, maybe it’s “be looking for you”?

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:04:28 +0000

Scott has a lifetime pass to all future Lambapaloozas, though you can be certain some poor animal’s flesh will be grilled during the festivities.

Chris, I’d be happy to throw all sorts of fantastic (to me at least) country music should you ever have the itch. I can’t imagine life without ole Hank, Willie, Goober, Townes Van Zandt, Commander Cody…

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 28 May 2007 18:21:45 +0000

Chris, I know, I know, in a few weeks you’ll all be wondering “sleslie, who the hell is that?” Hopefully Brian will at least invite me to Lambapalooza, I live on the West Coast too and have a cupboard-full of nutritional yeast and tofu to prove it too!

By: Chris L

Chris L — Mon, 28 May 2007 17:42:33 +0000

You realize that in Internet time, checking in a few weeks is like saying you’ll pop by in the 2020s? By that time Jim’s revolution will be complete and you’ll find him spirited around in a sedan chair by the faithful, Brian will be started Lambapalooza for his alternative hippy friends… heck, I’ll probably even be listening to country music!

By: Chris L

Chris L — Mon, 28 May 2007 17:39:53 +0000

Ah, well that explanation of guilt is much less psychologically thought provoking I post mostly with a desktop app and FFX widgets which don’t seem to suffer from the same “looks like it posted but it’s just screwing with your head” syndrome as the web interface. That WOULD be annoying.

Regardless, you will always be a member of the Chriserati (a small group, not to be confused with the rapturous Christerati of which your membership is your own business

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 28 May 2007 16:41:18 +0000

Hey, sorry to not have replied back sooner, but I actually went an entire weekend without going online! Amazing what not twitter’ing did for my real life offline

I really appreciate these comments, especially Gardner’s. I am going to give it a few weeks. If after a few weeks I check back and you all are still twittering away and can attest to the improvements in uptime twitter has made, then maybe I’ll slink back, trying to keep my tail out from betwixt my legs. We’ll see. That’s the tough part of this decision, it wasn’t about the people or the content at all; Alan’s original graph was absolutely accurate and I quickly became a convert, looking forward daily (hourly? minutely?) to finding out more about my extended colleagues’ thoughts and happenings.

I think it was Chris who wondered about my comment about feeling like Twitter’s failings were my own; specifically what I was referring to was its habit, as an Ajax app, to appear to post twits but then to simply gobble them up. This behaviour was near identical to successfully posting a twit (often times my screen would not refresh even when I had been successful). This is a specific usability thing about this type of interface but it really amplified my own frustrations with Twitter; I’d personally much rather it simply borked and let me know that it had, rather than seemingly work but instead gobble all my entries into its invisible belly-full of banality.

Anyways, I really do appreciate the comments and am glad it is clear that my reasons for abandoning Twitter are all about my frustrations and lack of patience with it, not any of you, and look forward to continue conversations in all the different places we show up. Cheers, Scott