I deleted my Twitter client

[misterx]

I found myself posting stuff noone could possibly care about, myself included. Furthermore, posting to twitter seemed to fill the "I should post something" urge, so I wouldn't post more meaningful content to lj.

I considered doing one of those "here's all my tweets" daily posts, because, you know ... y'all need to know when I poop, but yeah... I wouldn't even read the stuff. So, I deleted tweetberry.

The internet is an inherently shallow medium. Who said that? I said that. But it doesn't mean I have to contribute to the problem.

I wonder if there is a way to do the reverse... Automatically take what I post to lj, chop it off with a "more..." link and post it to twitter.

Comments

[galador42.livejournal.com]

So, when did you poop yesterday?

[misterx.livejournal.com]

If I had my twitter client I could probably tell you.

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

My twitter account somehow self-destructed. Mostly I used it to follow others, anyway, and after a few days out of the habit of checking it, I'm mostly over it. Except when I'm really bored and want to find out who just pooped.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

it self destructed? how?

[dampscribbler.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. Just one day, it wasn't there. I can't get anything but an error message when I go to twitter.com, also. Whatever.

[thenisaid.livejournal.com]

Wasn't that a song from Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang? Poop Tweets, poop tweets...I'm almost sure of it.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Something like that. :)

[mountain-lion.livejournal.com]

i'm with you. i've never had a twitter, never will, and furthermore, i don't read the posts of those who do.

[midnightmadness.livejournal.com]

I have a Titter account, but it was honestly just so I could grab my username there. I've used it 4 times or so in the 2 or so years that I've had it, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Maybe generational, but this is the first on line technology thing that genuinely seems foreign to me. While I do look over those auto LJ posts that are generated from people's tweets, I just can't really ever see myself being able to communicate anything that is very useful or important in 140 character blasts. Though I've never been one to post about the mundane or trivial very much anyway, and certainly not much at all in recent years.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Four tweets in two years is going to make it hard to keep followers. :)

[roaming.livejournal.com]

Whenever I think of twitter (and sometimes of LJ, depends)*, first I think that "twit" (an insignificant or bothersome person) is right on, and then I think of bread and circuses -- in the sense that we are all so distracted by vapid, meaningless, shallow amusements, we don't have the time -- or the brains left -- to pursue more significant and satisfying accomplishments. Like -- LAUNDRY, for example. :-) I konw I spend much more time on LJ when I'm avoiding something I need to but don't want to do.

I applaud your stepping away from the precipice of complete twitdom.


*(when people post things like "11:00 am, I'm hungry, when will it be time for lunch?!?!?" and then "1:30 Damn that burrito was GOOD!" and I want to punch them out, or gouge my own eyes out.)(Clearly these are people I can't unfriend for whatever reason, but I need to make a filter so I can bypass the twits.)

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not alone in this dislike of Twitter. :)

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

You're the second person to post about this and I have to agree. Twitter is very impersonal and the one liners tend to be pointless.

[misterx.livejournal.com]

I liked their April Fools day prank, where they were taking applications for "Twitter Pro", which gave you another 20 characters.