Comments on: Is Twitter digging DIGGs grave?

By: Jim Sefton

Jim Sefton — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:24:12 +0000

@Sheamus : I realise I am in the minority here, a lot of people disagree with me, but I see RT’s as spam most of the time. Once in a blue moon a RT is good, but some people RT everything their friends say… It would be nice if you could filter out RT’s

By: goran

goran — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:44:36 +0000

First Twitter web social bookmarking site
Twittley
Cool idea

By: Sheamus

Sheamus — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:29:44 +0000

The RT is *how* you get the 'Twitter effect'. It's all those little ripples that sees your X follows multiply into thousands and even millions (if you're big enough in the first place). It's all about reach, and the RT is how you get it. The initial hit from your own tweet (say, back to your blog) is just the first part. It's what everybody else does that really matters. Sheamus’s last blog post..Does Twitter Need Its Own Tom Anderson?

By: Jim Sefton

Jim Sefton — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:14:25 +0000

Interesting write up. I must say though retweets annoy me, especially if you have a group of people with similar interests... One person posts something, then you get a retweet from one person, then another from someone else. It ends up with a single piece of information getting passed to the same recipient 3, 4 or 5 times. I don't follow too many people, but the RT effect is giving Twitter a slightly irritating edge. Jim Sefton’s last blog post..Converting a PHP string number into a numeric value

By: greensaab

greensaab — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:28:04 +0000

I stopped going to Digg as the primaries first began because it seemed like only the very left were deciding the diggs. I was a big viewer before that. I now have tweetdeck up and pay attention to only the stuff I want. Digg should have stuck with tech only or separate it a little better.

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By: Nick Halstead

Nick Halstead — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:03:19 +0000

Great Article Frog, Really glad you think we can take on the might of DIGG - we have another major revision coming out next week - with categories, which really is going to take us to the next level. Plus separate RSS feeds for each category + channels, plus a whole load more API calls for developers to further data mine the stories Nick Halstead’s last blog post..Movie Trailer: Spike Jonze’s Where The Wild Things Are | /Film

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:51:46 +0000

Dugg

Good article, I’m getting a little annoyed with Digg at times, largely because it’s a community of people where the few can decide what the many like (in fact, dare I say that Digg is going towards a more traditional media source?). It isn’t as truly open as something like twitter is.

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By: squid

squid — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:52:30 +0000

I just don’t get Twitter. I’ve gone on there about 3 times over the last 18 months and each time have gone “WTF?” and walked away.

I find it tedious wading through the posts, particularly all the ‘@username’ replies and it confuses me.

Ebuyerdotcom have a feed (http://twitter.com/Ebuyerdotcom) which I guess I can kind of understand as a cheap and cheerful way to advertise deals to customers … but I feel that has limited appeal too.

Bottom line: I’m getting old.