Comments on: Live coverage on Twitter – useful or just plain annoying?

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99 conclusiones acerca de los blogs y la blogosfera — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:02:09 +0000

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1000 things I’ve learned about blogging | Online Journalism Blog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:21:35 +0000

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By: Jessica DaSilva

Jessica DaSilva — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:39:56 +0000

I think it really depends on what Twitter is being used for.

This post from Ron Sylvester of SPJ’s Technolo-J blog serves as a great example:

http://spj.org/blog/blogs/tech/archive/2008/06/12/20693.aspx

By: brenda

brenda — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:08:55 +0000

Didn’t bother me at all, I did zone it all out though. One of the real charms of Twitter is its eclecticism, so I have no problem if someone wants to go wild from time to time. Can understand it if it bothers others though. Nothing wrong with them temporarily de-following is there? Did they all come back?

This is a marvellous quote: ““amandachapel: @paulbradshaw | De-professionalizing journalism doesn’t just reduce cost, it eliminates the genre.”

/me goes to find + follow amandachapel

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To Twit, or not to Twit | Completetosh.com, by Neil McIntosh — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:42:49 +0000

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By: Ricky Treon

Ricky Treon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:19:52 +0000

A class I took at the University of Texas livemicroblogged some events, and the potential for it to be very useful is definitely there. Of course, we created our accounts for school/work purposes only. Therefore, everyone who subscribed to our threads were expecting all the livemicroblogging and nobody complained about the amount of text messages or pages of tweets. It definitely would have sucked to get all those tweets if I wasn’t also working the event. Either way, livemicroblogging with twitter it’s an exciting idea. (I love writing livemicroblogging, btw, great word)

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links for 2008-06-17 « David Black — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:35:40 +0000

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By: @bereteando

@bereteando — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:47:31 +0000

I know it sounds kinda stupid ask Twitter for features, but it would be nice if users would be able to open channels – so tweets sent to this channel would not show up in public timeline, but somewhere in the user’s page. I think Twitter is a good tool for this coverage and there’s a lot of people doing it with good results – but being limited to 10 page browsing (when lucky) for old tweets, each time there is a live microblogging I have to unfollow the user in order to reach all the messages I lost – and follow again later.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:13:37 +0000

My issue was I tend to work late into the night so don’t get up and check Twitter until the afternoon. Usually this involves going back 5 or 6 pages. When you were gushing like a broken hydrant I had 10 pages of just you and not much else so I had to unfollow to make things a little more useful.

A mature Twitter (either done by them or someone else) will have refinement and filtering tools in place (no more than 10 tweets per hour per user, for example) and I’d be happy to pay a premium for these. In fact I think this is where Twitter can make money – sell services that make the service more useful but keep the current stuff free to ensure a critical mass of users.

Anyhoo, in short, a separate account for monster-tweet sessions please!