Connectedness

[kingfox]

[Poll #1516902]

My rule on this? If you have your Twitter activity automatically posted to your LJ on a daily basis, and you have your LJ updates automatically Twittered for you, and you don't post for a few days yet the two services keep on notifying back and forth every day and even killing you won't stop the pointless spam? You're doing it wrong. Cross-promotion I understand, re-reading your intelligent commentary twice is no skin off my back, but an endless cycle of the two not saying anything new? Bad.

Comments

[dossy.livejournal.com]

I didn't even notice the at first - how did you do that?

[dosboof.livejournal.com]

Though I loathe the Twitter->LJ with a hatred that burns like a thousand suns, I think Twitter->FB isn't as bad. As I don't tweet I have no opinion on LJ->Twitter or FB->Twitter but the latter seems like it should be fine. As for LJ->FB I think it could work if you don't have a huge overlap in your audiences on the two (which I don't) and don't mind everyone on FB reading everything you wrote on LJ (which I very much do), so I think it could work for some but not for me.

[damnitnicole]

I have Twitter, I just can't be arsed to use it. ping.fm used to update my Twitter, MySpace, and FB with the same stuff, but has become utterly unreliable for anything but Facebook, or my feeds would all have the same statuses most of the time.

Twitter to LJ dumps are annoying. End of story.

I already have it set to send my public LJ entries to my FB notes, and I wish there was a way to let FB have my friends-only entries, too.

[mineral2.livejournal.com]

I just don't see the point of Twitter when FB status updates are the same thing. And it's just as easy to update each using mobile applications. I think the audience on each is the same, if not bigger on FB.

Currently, I import my LJ posts to FB and I've noticed they get more responses over there than here, I think in part because I have a larger audience over there and most of the LJ community has abandoned LJ land for FB. I've contemplated leaving LJ land in favor of re-doing my own website using wordpress, but I don't know if I'd be noticed at all, then. I'll find niches for each, I suppose.

[metallian.livejournal.com]

What drives me nuts is when people post Twitter updates to LJ and hide it behind a cut. This is not helpful! Most of the time, the formatting around the LJ cut is actually longer than the Twitter updates! Plus, it's an extra click to read...a sentence or two.