turning off the twitter feed posts…

 

I’ve just disabled the daily twitter feed posts. Since Google dropped the sharing option out of Google Reader I’ve been experimenting with that as an alternative, and honesty, I just don’t like it. Lots of noise, little information, less amplification of that information. This is especially true with twitter putting the links through their shortener, since I don’t even get a benefit of using bit.ly to figure out which ones (if any) you click on; the analytics are pretty opaque, and the links point at twitter’s shortener, not the original site, so they don’t get any direct google help. The analytics show that almost nobody is clicking in to read those articles (not surprising), and it’s effectively impossible to see if anyone is using them out of the RSS feed.

Add in that all of the twitter chatter gets in the way, and the more I look at it, the more I see a useless blob of stuff with little to really call useful to someone. So why bother? Don’t be surprised if I go back in and nuke all of those postings, now that I’ve decided they’re pretty worthless…

So for now, if that stuff interested you, your best bet is to monitor my google+ page. If and when google gets its act together and makes that available as an RSS feed the nightly digest might return (or maybe not), but until then, I see no reason to post that stuff in the current form. It’s just not that useful or interesting.

(and yes, I’ve submarined out of the blog again. Right now, all my energy is being pushed at work stuff — I’m living in Omnigraffle as we try to push the site design off to various groups for review and implementation, and so in the evenings, I’ve been mostly just — gasp — kicking back. As soon as this really busy phase shifts, I’ll be back more reliably. This is a good pause, and lots is happening really fast, but I just haven’t been feeling like writing in the evenings because of it. But we’re going to, we hope, launch in about half the time sites like this typically launch, once we get there, or so it looks right now…

 

 

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  • http://twitter.com/chuckgoolsbee chuck goolsbee

    Thank you.

  • http://about.me/esoltys Eric James Soltys

    I find links shared on Twitter are mostly passed over, but then one catches attention and will spike. It’s more useful—and fun—for conversation anyway.

    • http://www.chuqui.com chuqui

      this is something I really want to do, but do well. Right now, it’s mostly noise, not signal (so to speak). What it needs is more curation, and I’m thinking through how I want to do that… 

      • http://about.me/esoltys Eric James Soltys

        One easy thing you could do is change how your blog formats titles for posts.

        From: “turning off the twitter feed posts…  @ Chuqui 3.0″

        To: “@chuq turning off the twitter feed posts…”

        You’ll get automatic mentions when a post is shared on Twitter.