Comments on: Auto-Twittering is Ridiculous

By: Fernandus

Fernandus — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:45:36 +0000

I got the auto-tweeters problem solved by reading this post and comments. Thanks for this to all of you.

By: Tim Wright

Tim Wright — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:24:07 +0000

I put auto-tweeters in the say category as people who use segways (http://www.segway.com/).

I’ve been seeing people who do the reverse too. They post a weeks worth of tweets in their blog as one big post. Frankly, that just creeps me out…

By: Nina

Nina — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:15:45 +0000

I’m with you Jaime… I use Twitter Feed to hit my Twitter with my Last.fm listens every hour and my Wakoopa Profile every 4 hours. Other than that, I manually “Tweet” and make sure it’s not overkill.

By: Jamie Thompson

Jamie Thompson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:30:51 +0000

I don’t agree with any of your arguments. I auto-twitter using twitterfeed and my own custom written systems to post a quick tweet each time i publish a blog post and each time i love a last.fm track.

In both these cases i’m making a conscious decision to ‘publish’ something to my ‘followers’, why would i waste my time doing these things manually throughout the day? If i were do take a manual approach i’d still be tweeting “I Love track XYZ by ABC” or “I just blogged about XYZ”

Lots of auto-twittering services do suck, but if they don’t work as you’d like your free to write your own. The twitter API is childsplay compared to most other social networks.

I guess what i’m really saying is don’t present opinion as fact.

By: SumYungGuy

SumYungGuy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:22:52 +0000

I would probably respect your opinion more if you could style links in comment boxes…

By: Alexis

Alexis — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:38:54 +0000

thanks Chris, I will check out the screencast now!

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:58:21 +0000

@Alexis: Actually I use different things on both sites =P. I think the simplest way to do it probably to just use the javascript snippet that twitter provides you. I did a screencast on it one time:

http://css-tricks.com/new-screencast-designing-a-unique-page-for-twitter-updates/

By: Alexis

Alexis — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:00:29 +0000

Hi Chris,
I would love to know what plugin you use for your twitter updates…I’m trying to put up a website now and I don’t know how to sort through the junk!!! Do you use the same one on this site and on the CSS tricks site?

By: Edwin

Edwin — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:01:26 +0000

Totally agree with you Chris. I think automatic messages will make it less personal and really stupid. I won’t follow a robot, I’m interested in real people :)

By: Damien

Damien — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:44:05 +0000

I was thinking about setting something like that up… now I’m not so sure anymore. I already had my doubts and you make some good arguments.

Twitter is about something you want to say at a certain moment, not about getting as much exposure as you can.