Comments on: Hate Twitter? Here’s How To Keep Up!

By: Judy Caroll

Judy Caroll — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:23:10 +0000

Updates and changes are being on way for Twitter all the time so giving this up would really mean missing a lot. Glad you decided to keep up. I followed you on Twitter by the way ( and I did that right after reading your post. Hope to connect with you soon. Have a great day/night Julie=D

By: Tiggerito

Tiggerito — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:41:58 +0000

I’m overloaded with streams.

I’m currently experimenting with aggregators like paper.li to weed out the chaff . I then pipe the paper or feed to a twitter account so I can read it via hootsweet. Here;s the paper:

If I can resist reading the full streams it could save me loads of time. my excuse at the movement is to verify that it shows the best articles.

From what I see, most people are using paper.li to create automated posts. I don’t even post mine as it’s for me. I’m tuning it to save me time. It’s not a marketing thing but a way for me to save time.

I’d love to hear about more aggregators. My favourite was summify (RIP soon) and as you can tell I like paper.li. But you can’t be short of good tools to pre-filter your reading and save time. (did anyone say information bubble?)

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:16:55 +0000

Ha!! I’ll try it then!

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:16:01 +0000

Actually Hootsute is web based too. hehe. but it will allow you to more easily see your lists, @replies, DMs etc all at the same time. So this should streamline your fussing. :-p

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:08:51 +0000

Well what would I fuss about then??? Haha! Good idea though…it’s time I stopped this web-based nonsense.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:06:39 +0000

Julie, you should give Hootsuite a try. Really great Twitter tool!

By: Julie Joyce

Julie Joyce — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:02:38 +0000

Thanks for all the comments! In answer to Sam, I agree that Twitter is only as good as the people that you follow but in some cases, there are people I have followed who do tweet great content, but they’re maddeningly self-promotional. Of course, I use web-based Twitter so maybe my solution should be to leap into 2010 and actually use a nice Twitter tool or app.

By: David Lindop

David Lindop — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:05:24 +0000

I dumped Twitter a long time ago and wrote a long post about de-cluttering my digital life. I summed it up by saying “In short, I realised that the time and effort Twitter required of me was not proportionate to what it gave back.” and to be honest, aside from the initial cold turkey, I haven’t missed it at all.

Now I QUICKLY check Google Reader each morning, skim through my Google+ digital marketing circle, and click through anything that looks interesting.

I realised I don’t need to know the latest news within minutes; I mean, it’s a nice idea in theory but it doesn’t add provide any real benefit over just reading a daily digest. Unless you work in journalism or PR I can’t see any healthy reason for constantly checking Twitter, Facebook, Google+ every 10 minutes.

By: Sam Smith

Sam Smith — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:27:26 +0000

Surely the answer is to simply review who you follow or create lists to put the people who are worth following in into categories. Twitter is only as good as who you follow. Personally I prefer looking at RSS for blogs and such, I don’t have to look through a timeline then.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:26:08 +0000

Julie,

Another thing I’ve learned that goes along with your overall theme here, it’s always important to diversify your information sources and social platforms.

I remember a couple of times when Twitter went down for several hours. People were freaking out! you’d think we were in the midstof a nuclear holocaust or something. People were scrambling around. “What the hell do I do!” People were IMing me. WTF Twitter is down! Ahhhh!

It was a mixture of panic and chaos. And then to keep in mind Twitter or any other social platform can ban you at any time and really pretty much for any reason. Or they will give you a vague and canned TOS response when you ask why you were banned.

Sure people can always start over from square one, but people really need to have a backup plan in the event something like that happens. It’s happened to a few friends of mine that have had several years invested in the platform.