Shopping and Twitter

~ Cheryl

I spent a few hours today in Taunton shopping and looking at apartment rental prices (which are finally starting to come down). Much of this has been chronicled on my Twitter feed. I’m finding Twitter very useful for this sort of thing, because it is so easy with the iPhone to take pictures and tweet about them. In particular I have been cheesetweeting. I’ve also reported on the books I have purchased.

On the subject of Twitter, I do now have the technology to create a daily Twitter digest here. I’m holding fire on this because I gather that this really annoys some people. I can’t see why (though I do ignore Twitter digest posts myself), but I’m willing to entertain explanations.

11 thoughts on “Shopping and Twitter”

  1. It does kind of clutter the Friends Page when one reads LJ, to the point there’s a script you can use to filter them out.

    However, I haven’t done that yet because I only have about three friends who use Twitter, and one posts only every third day or so, and another puts his tweets behind a cut.

    If more friends started doing it, I would start chopping them pretty fast, because it would be a lot of tl;dr, most of it telegraphic and not really terribly clear unless you’re the person doing the tweeting.

  2. Stacie:

    All very reasonable points, but I’d be more impressed if it wasn’t painfully obvious that many of the people who have friended me don’t actually read anything I post.

  3. If you had a daily digest of Twitter posts that fed to your blog feed (sort of how you can get a daily digest Google Alert email) I would like it as I find Twitter maddening to read–I can’t ever find what the person said themselves about what they were doing amidst a forest of baffling @ replies. That and I only go on Twitter to do stuff for That Darn Con, I admit. One less page to check is bonus, fwiw.

    Me likes cheese blogging. *sigh* Someday I gotta show M some bit of UK, as he’s never been. And I haven’t really been (not counting stopovers on the way to somewhere else) since 1985.

  4. Stacie – how would i go about putting my tweet updates behind cuts? I’d like to do that (I occasionally have rather heavy tweet days…)

    Cheryl – as for bugging anyone, no one’s mentioned it yet and I’ve had a few friends turn a tweet update into a comment-discussion – I suspect it depends on the nature of one’s tweets and one’s “friends” ;>.

  7. Since I am the only person in the universe who doesn’t Twitter, I like Twitter digests. If they are sometimes mysterious and gnomic, that’s all the better.

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