Anyone use twitter for D?

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Daniel de Kok wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 21:08:32 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> 
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
>> news:ghs5kf$9d7$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>I started one to see how that works out for D.
>>>http://twitter.com/WalterBright
>> 
>> Call me a curmudgeon, but does anyone ever read twitters? They seem to
>> be enormously popular to write, though I've never understood why.
> 
> I made a Twitter account a while back, just to try. But I really have
> difficulty to keep up with other people's tweets: there is no serious
> threading whatsoever and 80% of the people tweet about entering/leaving
> the train, their meals, etc. As a result, if you have more than a few
> friends, it's impossible to catch up with Twitter, unless you make it a
> hourly activity.

Although some of those I follow are friends, I really only follow those with a common interest (ie mainly D) - I followed a couple of people that put in really personal stuff, whom I promptly disfollowed. The biggest potential issue as I see it, are "personal" (@nickname) messages that are publicized, since you very often have little or no way to relate to it when they aren't meant for you.

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