twitter vs RSS
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twitter vs RSS
anybody uses twitter? Would you be interested in receiving xplorer2 news on it instead of the current RSS feed? I don't use it and it looks like a fad but just checking
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Ah right, there's no need to choose one over the other. Actually, having an RSS-stream is almost a prerequisite for an effective twitterfeed. It automatically broadcasts an update from an RSS-stream to a twitter account.vserghi wrote:Please don't use twitter, maybe it's just my age, but I just don't gedit.
RSS does a good enough job, don't fall for the latest fad.
If there's any trouble I'd love to help setting it up, I've been using it for some time now.
...as the original question was posed - what, 9 months ago? - and the first response was just a few days back, it doesn't appear to be a pressing concern to the masses.
On the subject of RSS, it would be nice if the message included a link to the story/blog itself, as receiving just a title (foreshortened out of context) is a little weird.
My 2 cents.
On the subject of RSS, it would be nice if the message included a link to the story/blog itself, as receiving just a title (foreshortened out of context) is a little weird.
My 2 cents.
Ah, sorry, in Thunderbird with the header compressed the linkback doesn't appear (one has to manually expand to see it).
No matter, just that most other feeds include the link as part of the message, not the header, so it's more obvious.
I'm much too traditional to go anywhere near Twitter. Even the name gives me jitters.
No matter, just that most other feeds include the link as part of the message, not the header, so it's more obvious.
I'm much too traditional to go anywhere near Twitter. Even the name gives me jitters.
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That is true, but Twitter is a good way to make the product visible to some people that wouldn't otherwise get to know about it. Twitter has a user base in the millions, and the networking possibilities are huge. You don't even have to be that active on the account, if there's users interested in your updates they will spread by themselves.Kilmatead wrote:...as the original question was posed - what, 9 months ago? - and the first response was just a few days back, it doesn't appear to be a pressing concern to the masses.
But I won't press this anymore, I don't see the purpose of convincing people to use a new and very popular service. Chances are I'll hook up the xplorer2 blog to my own twitter feed for purely personal use.
Don't let our curmudgeonly attitude put you off, press all you like, you never know who might agree with you. Whilst I may not like it personally, it would probably be a decent thing from a business point of view.Hirtenfeuer wrote:But I won't press this anymore, I don't see the purpose of convincing people to use a new and very popular service.
I just have a simple philosophy that says anything containing the words "a new and very popular service" is instantly (by definition) irrelevant to my existence.
Web 2.0 is dead, isn't it? Or just so 2009 (as he flings his wrist back flitfully).
Instructions/manuals have a well known effect on men, I suffer from it to. Only when you have looked at the device/program long enough in despair, hoping that staring at it may change the inevitable, do you dig out the instructions.Kilmatead wrote: Oops, that'll teach me to not read the instructions on extensions first. :oops:
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But what if Nietzsche used twitter? He could do it in 134 including the punctuation.Tuxman wrote:Try to write a meaningful text in max. 140 characters. You'll fail.
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