Should they stay or should they go?
A feed subscriber has indicated that he’s not too fond of the “Twitter Updates” posts that are posted automatically each night by Twitter Tools. He’d like to see them off the feed.
But if people want them off the feed, they probably also want them off the site. So that’s the question for this newest poll.
What do you think of the nightly Twitter Updates post on this site?
- I can take them or leave them. (44%, 4 Votes)
- They're a waste of precious bandwidth! Get 'em off the site! (44%, 4 Votes)
- I like them! It's interesting to see how you spend the day. (11%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 9
If you have no idea what I’m talking about and would like to vote, please look at some examples first.
Use the Comments link or form below if you like. Try not to be too cruel.
6-Sep-07 Update:
I turned the Twitter Updates post feature off over the weekend.
Today, I downloaded and installed the Ultimate Category Excluder plugin and set it up to keep the Twiiter Updates posts off the Home page and out of the feeds. So I turned the Twitter Updates Post feature back on. With luck, they should not appear in feeds or on the Home page. But they’ll continued to be archived to this blog, primarily for my own journaling purposes. Thanks everyone for the feedback. I’m closing the poll down now.
12-Dec-07 Update:
I decided to kill the Twitter Update posts completely. Not only did I disable the plugin’s features, but I deleted all the update posts from the system.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Andy Piper // Sep 3, 2007 at 5:12 am
So I just got back from vacation and see a whole bunch of your Twitter updates entries in your feed. It’s a handy way of catching up.
BUT… well I already friended you on Twitter, so I see the updates when they are relevant. And they are circular, so you have new blog entries posted as tweets, and you have your twitter updates blog entries appear as tweets too.
Not for me. I’ll stick with your blog, but personally, my preference is to nuke these entries.
2 Maria Langer // Sep 3, 2007 at 7:24 pm
I can appreciate that, Andy.
I wish the tweets could be recorded in a category that wasn’t part of my feed. This way, they can be saved for the future as part of my personal journaling process but aren’t “in your face” (so to speak) every day.
I’m back from my weekend trip and will be tweeting less as I work on my Leopard book. I’ll think about a way to get the posts out of the main flow. Until then, I’m likely to just turn it off.
Thanks for your feedback. Wish we had a few more votes here.
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