Opt Out of my "Twitter" posts!

[bkdelong]

OK, OK, I'll admit. They're frustrating. There are a small handful of you who politely requested to opt out. So I've created a Custom Friend Group called "notwitter" and setup LoudTwitter to post via email - that allows me to include "header" settings to LiveJournal which will post only to the filter....leaving the opt-outs, well, out.

Found the key to this in a LiveJournal post.

If you still want opting out, feel free to comment. I will do my utmost to post real content more often.

Just....don't all rush to turn me off. Patience is appreciated.

I've also been flumoxed by the fact that LJ only allows 35+ Custom Friend Groups so I need to sit down, go through my old friends-locked (flocked) posts and see what subject categories they will fit in.

So, alas, no ability to fully categorize everyone similar to my FaceBook or YouTube groups putting a wrench in my idea of video blogging everything and then posting based on content and privacy needs.

Comments

[butterbee.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the hard work you had to do in order to get this to work!

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

No problem. It really wasn't that hard. Maybe 10min of work.

I couldn't force a test post so hopefully it will work tonight.

[chanel19.livejournal.com]

You work harder on social networking than anyone I have ever met. I still don't understand the point of twitter. I'm not trying to be a bitch. I really don't get what it's supposed to do. Another friend of mine used it but then abandoned it. What's it for?

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

Let's see....how to explain it.

So, many folks are scattered across many different social networks - Facebook, MySpace, Livejournal, LinkedIn, Plaxo etc.

All of those services (I think) have the ability to post your "status".

Twitter is essentially a service for posting your "status". Why post in multiple locations when, (in theory), you can do it on one spot and cross-post.

Therefore, many people in social networking communities have said - "Hey, it's easier to post a 54 character 'tweet' than a 500 word blog post. I'm busy, I don't have time. Twitter is 'microblogging'!"

It's a combination of status-posting, broadcast instant messaging and live chatroom participation.

Does that help at all?

[chanel19.livejournal.com]

Okay. I guess I understand. I just don't usually post if I don't have time but I really only post to LJ. I have a different set of relationships on Facebook and I don't use any other sites.

[darcey321.livejournal.com]

BK,

Thanks for working so hard to figure this out for the rest of us! I love your updates, and can't wait to hear more of your goings on!

Doris

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

A comment on something that I'm not sure you knew: It looked for a while like your twitter posts were something you were trying to put behinad an lj-cut, but the end result was we got an "unknown LJ tag" instead, and that actually made the post much longer rather than shorter.

I typically prefer for people who are particularly vociferous to just put 'twitter' as the subject (which is easy to notice and skip) and then put it in an lj-cut.

*shrug* Just so you know.

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

Yup, thanks. :)

Fixed that - LoudTwitter was doing something weird with the way I set the tag up.

[harpinred.livejournal.com]

I may not comment much but I like them! :D

[cellio]

Thanks for setting this up. I always ignore tweets -- everyone's, not just yours. The micro thing just doesn't engage me. I enjoy reading thoughtful posts and even just the "what I've been up to" ones, but I want sentences and paragraphs and stuff and not to be hindered by 150 characters (or whatever it is).

[harpnfiddle.livejournal.com]

I think the thing that I don't like about twitter is that I can see your responses to comments that I can't see. Makes for a very garbled post.

[snoopypez.livejournal.com]

Twitter is just weird to me. ;P

[secretsoflife.livejournal.com]

i already read you on twitter, so i'd like to opt out of these :)

[kev-bot.livejournal.com]

I just like it when you post like this. It makes me think I know you better.

[beowabbit]

What would be nice would be if readers (not posters) could selectively choose to hide entries with particular tags, or to only read entries with particular tags (and if posters could be trusted to use them consistently). Then if I want to read most of your entries but not your Twitter entries, or your memes, or your photos, I could, whether or not you have me friended. Or if I want to read jwz’s photography posts, but not his other posts, I could do so, even if he doesn’t have me friended.

Another feature to file away for the be-all-end-all ultimate social-networking app. :-)

[bkdelong.livejournal.com]

Grrrr. yeah, I shout about what's wrong with social networking features all over the place but I don't have enough time to be active in all the OpenID/OAuth, Open Web, DISO lists I'm on and watch due to work.

Livejournal is also WAY behind the curve and have a huge amount of catching up to do.