Comments on: The Trouble with Twitter: Automated Tweets and Self-Publicity http://techticker.net/2008/02/16/the-trouble-with-twitter-automated-tweets-and-self-publicity/ educational technology, eLearning & emerging technology Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:11:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Mike Bogle http://techticker.net/2008/02/16/the-trouble-with-twitter-automated-tweets-and-self-publicity/#comment-45 Mike Bogle Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:50:33 +0000 http://techticker.net/?p=1484#comment-45 Amen to that Frank. As I said, certainly there will be people in the Twittersphere who are plain abusers of link-spam, but they won't or shouldn't get followed by anyone who has a problem with link-spam. In the absolute worst case there's also the block button. But truth be told I've never had to use it, so I don't even know what it does. When you are on the avante garde of eLearning and educational technology all related information is valuable, whether it is original content or links to published studies. I welcome links personally. That said, I'm sure not everyone is in this category. But again, this is the power of choice. Don't like someone's tweets? Don't follow them. Thanks for stopping by BTW, I'll be adding you to my blogroll :) Cheers, Mike Amen to that Frank. As I said, certainly there will be people in the Twittersphere who are plain abusers of link-spam, but they won’t or shouldn’t get followed by anyone who has a problem with link-spam.

In the absolute worst case there’s also the block button. But truth be told I’ve never had to use it, so I don’t even know what it does.

When you are on the avante garde of eLearning and educational technology all related information is valuable, whether it is original content or links to published studies. I welcome links personally.

That said, I’m sure not everyone is in this category. But again, this is the power of choice. Don’t like someone’s tweets? Don’t follow them.

Thanks for stopping by BTW, I’ll be adding you to my blogroll :)
Cheers,

Mike

]]> By: Frank http://techticker.net/2008/02/16/the-trouble-with-twitter-automated-tweets-and-self-publicity/#comment-44 Frank Sat, 16 Feb 2008 18:15:29 +0000 http://techticker.net/?p=1484#comment-44 Hi Mike ... some things just need to be said. I agree. One twitterfeed auto-tweet every 24 hours from someone that you choose to follow should be a good thing. I like to be reminded by coolcatteacher, langwitches, others, and the new and emerging players that don't yet have a wide-reaching but fresh voice in edublogospere. If I see after some time that there is no value to follow someone, I can simply stop following them. But, I appreciate the gentle nudge to be welcomed into their "blog homes" as a guest. After all, what is the real difference between dropping someone else's URL or your own? The only people in my tweet circle are other edubloggers ... so my content and their content should be relevant to our shared interests. We choose who we follow. Anyone that complains about unwanted tweets is really showing their own inability to manage things properly rather than someone else's. Like I mentioned to you yesterday in a tweet. If auto-tweeting your own blog posts is a "crime" against proper tweetiquette, then buddy-up with someone and co-tweet! Zero "spam" but same results! Haha! :) Frank http://franksblog.edublogs.org Hi Mike … some things just need to be said. I agree. One twitterfeed auto-tweet every 24 hours from someone that you choose to follow should be a good thing. I like to be reminded by coolcatteacher, langwitches, others, and the new and emerging players that don’t yet have a wide-reaching but fresh voice in edublogospere. If I see after some time that there is no value to follow someone, I can simply stop following them. But, I appreciate the gentle nudge to be welcomed into their “blog homes” as a guest.

After all, what is the real difference between dropping someone else’s URL or your own? The only people in my tweet circle are other edubloggers … so my content and their content should be relevant to our shared interests. We choose who we follow. Anyone that complains about unwanted tweets is really showing their own inability to manage things properly rather than someone else’s.

Like I mentioned to you yesterday in a tweet. If auto-tweeting your own blog posts is a “crime” against proper tweetiquette, then buddy-up with someone and co-tweet! Zero “spam” but same results! Haha!
:) Frank
http://franksblog.edublogs.org

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